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Apple Updates Safari Web Browser; Security Fixes Included

Apple has released version 5 of its Safari web browser for Mac OS X and Windows, along with a security update for Safari 4.1, for those users unable to use version 5 (which requires Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard). The updates contain dozens of security fixes for the Safari program, as well as for WebKit, the program’s HTML rendering engine which is also used by other programs. Some of the fixes correct the following bugs:

The wide variety of possible vulnerabilities listed above is a sobering reminder that one of the main vectors of security threats today is the web. All of the above, it is important to note, can take place with no user interaction: often the “maliciously crafted websites” are hacked to include links that will exploit vulnerabilities; it’s not even the user who has to go into the dark alleys of the Internet to get hit. This is why today’s security software has to protect against web threats as well as malware.

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