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Apple's new Safari for Windows Browser Beta - Early security issues

I had read some favorable reviews on the speed and functionality, while seeing commentary that it was buggy in some areas and needed a little work on the User Interface.  Still, I may wait until an improved version surfaces to test out, as a number of security issues surfaced in the first day of it's release.  All these security issues were proof-of-concept and were most likely not circulating in the wild at this point.

Apple's new Safari for Windows Browser Beta - Early security issues
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-062007.html#00001210
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2007/06/niiiice.html

Posted: Jun 13 2007, 11:08 PM by Harry Waldron | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

Kelly said:

Any first release for a browser on a new OS is likely to have security issues that they didn't think about, which is plainly obvious with this release. :) Still, we'll see how it plays out in the greater market.

# June 14, 2007 8:40 AM

Harry Waldron - Microsoft MVP Blog said:

Security issues were found with Apple's Safari beta for Windows, when it was released earlier this

# June 15, 2007 12:52 PM