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  • May
  • 16
  • 2008

Apple OK with Safari’s “Carpet Bombing” Vulnerability

Next time you get nagged to install Apple’s Safari browser keep this in mind: The company’s security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way for miscreants to use the browser to litter an end user’s machine with malicious files.

This is unfortunate because the vulnerability allows miscreants to dump hundreds of malicious files into a user's default download location (in Windows it's the desktop and in OS X it's the download folder). As Nate McFeters at…

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