Major Flaw Found in Apple’s Safari Browser

As Apple continues to grow up and gain market share, they will be subject to the same typee of attacks that Microsoft has become so used to defending.

Apple is known for its tendency to deny problems with its popular gadgets, making life miserable for customers when such problems occur. While Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna issues are currently stealing the show, there’s perhaps no better example overall than Apple’s spotty track record on security.
Security research firm Secunia just released a list of vulnerabilities and Apple for the first has come out on top as the most vulnerable. Secunia warns, “[The] graph is not an indication of the individual vendors’ security, as it is not possible to compare the vendors based on number of vulnerabilities alone.”
Apple’s supporters were quick to attack the report. AppleInsider writes:

Not all vulnerabilities are equal: Secunia outlines five levels of criticality ranging from minor “not critical” issues to “extremely critical” problems that can result in remote exploits without any interaction from the user, and for which active exploits are already known to exist. Yet Secunia’s vulnerability report totals throw all these various types of flaws together into sums that are frequently used for meaningless comparison purposes.

It’s ironic that almost simultaneous to the report another significant security flaw in Safari aired. Safari — Apple’s browser software — has oft seen releases so buggy to the point that they were unusable. Safari 5 certainly offered some improvements in that department, but it apparently doesn’t fair particularly better in the security department than past releases, including Safari 4 which had a flaw so severe it prompted a Department Homeland Security warning.