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Major Safari security flaw discovered in RSS handler

Like a real safari, Apple's web browser may be fraught with danger. While you may not be gored or catch sleeping sickness, your privacy and data are vulnerable.

If you're using Safari as your default browser, you may want to change your RSS feed handler. As reported by developer Brian Mastenbrook, there's a major flaw in Safari that could allow an attacker to directly access files on your hard drive.

Apple users can simply change their default RSS reader. Windows users, on the other hand, are advised to use a different browser for the time being.

The problem has been acknowledged by Apple, though there's currently no information as to when a fix is coming. It'll be interesting to see if they respond as quickly as Microsoft did to the unseen IE threat.

[ via jkOnTheRun ]
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