safari
Safari “carpet bombing” exploit released in the wild
In what appears to be an attempt to provoke Apple to reconsider its currently passive position on the severity of the dubbed as “carpet bomb” flaw, a working Proof of Concept exploit code has been released at Liu Die Yu’s security blog :
Nitesh Dhanjani discovered that Safari for Windows puts downloads automatically to Desktop and [...]
Microsoft Prefers Flash to Silverlight
A very interesting point noted on searchenginewatch. Microsoft still has not adopted Silverlight, and uses Flash all over it’s websites.
“Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant seems to be not even trying. In fact, even most Microsoft web sites are [...]
PayPal: “No intention” of blocking Safari
There were strong rumors in the net and blogsphere about PayPal blocking Safari browser from its site.
PayPal public relations have clarified their position as below:
PayPal is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal when using obsolete browsers on outdated or unsupported operating systems. An example of such a browser/OS combination might be, for [...]
