Homeland Security Warns About Latest Dangerous Apple Browser Bug
Apple's arrogant air when it comes to security has yet again come back to bite it. This time Danish security research firm Secunia discovered yet another vulnerability in the web browser Safari, which they billed as "highly critical" -- their most serious rating.
Secondary confirmation of the bug came from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) (part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security), which issued an advisory after Polish researcher Krystian Kloskowski disclosed the bug on Friday.
The bug exploits Apple's poor implementation of code that handle's the browser's parent windows. According to Secunia, "This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code when a user visits a specially-crafted Web page and closes opened pop-up windows."L33tdawg: To hell with all the browser bugs - if you wanna hack OS X and associated Apple products, you need to be focusing on the fun you can have with IOKit.
