Windows Safari users: Hackers have you in their cross-hairs
- TAGS:Apple, carpet bomb, hackers, Safari, Windows
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Internet, Macintosh, Networking, Operating Systems, Security, Windows
Apple's Windows version of Safari has a very big security hole, and Windows users are more vulnerable than ever, because a hacker has posted attack code that makes use of that fatal flaw. Apple, though, still refused acknowledge the danger, much less fix it. It's one more example of Apple's arrogance hurting users.
As I've written previously, Apple has refused to fix a serious security hole in Safari, even though it puts users at a big risk. The hole, a so-called "carpet bomb," could be used by Web sites to flood a Windows PC with malware.
Numerous people have called for Apple to fix the problem, including StopBadware.org. Apple not only refuses to fix the hole --- it won't even admit it exists.
Security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani wrote to Apple to try and get them to fix the problem. Here's what Apple said in response to Dhanjani’s emails, according to StopBadware.org:
Please note that we are not treating this as a security issue...We want to set your expectations that this [potential fix] could take quite a while, if it ever gets incorporated.
While Apple refuses to fix the problem, hackers are busy at work. Computerworld reports that source code for an attack, along with a demo of it, was posted Sunday on a security blog.
Apple refuses to do anything to fix the problem. So the real answer is very simple: Windows users should delete Safari from their systems. If Apple won't take action, that's the only way for Windows Safari users to stay safe.
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