News: Flaw hunters go off on Safari (Apple)

[Shawn]

Less than a day after Apple released a beta version of its Safari Web
browser for Windows, three vulnerability researchers have already
found a handful of bugs, many which appear to work against the
currently shipping version of the browser for Mac OS X.

Security researcher David Maynor, infamous for his row with Apple over
three wireless flaws he presented at the Black Hat Security Briefings
in 2006, claims to have found six vulnerabilities in Safari. Four of
the vulnerabilities are simple denial-of-service bugs that crash the
browser, but two of the flaws allow remote execution, he said in a
post to his company's blog.

Full story here:
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/523?ref=rss

Shawn