BBC Article about Safari security hole

While I'm also not content with how Apple downplayed the issue, the article seems to half-ignore the fact that there IS a security patch that DOES solve the issue...
 
Yeah the Journo must be a PC-fanboy; I didn't see a "massive security risk" e-mail or an panic-y announcement from Apple a la Windows Update.
Just another security patch of which there are a few a year - hardly worth a BBC article like when M$ realise there's another gaping hole in the registry or similar....
 
Yeh I read it too. Wasn't realy newsworthy, got a prime spot on the techno section of their web site too.
 
I think it's more the fact that it is actually 'news' for macs to have a problem. Also BBC only speak of a 'theoretical vulnerability'.

A BBC fan
 
okay. and: apparently there's still an issue that isn't solved. only help viewer is fixed now, but there's still the other thing... :/ hope apple fixes everything soon. :)
 
The article makes quiite a point of stating:
"This is the second time this month that there have been warnings of holes in Apple's software."

If anyone remembers a few months back, during the blaster ourbreak, Microsoft posted no fewer than 40 seperate security KB articles in under a month, and released about 7 seperate patches?

Has anybody else ever even heard of Secunia? I've looked over the articles of what they describe, and would be hard pressed to see any way that a hacker could actually do what they descibe in the vulnerability reports.
Did anybody else notice tha neither of the CAN numbers they quoted for this vulnerability appears to be valid?
 
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