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Safari Security Hole Allows Cookie Theft

Posted by pudge on from the shut-it-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MacSlash posted a story about a vulnerability in Safari. The exploit allows someone to steal any of your domain-based cookies (passwords, private info, etc.) from any website. Mozilla and Internet Explorer had the same bug in the past."

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  1. Sweet karma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Now's your chance, Karma Whores. Cut and paste the highest-rated comments from the MacSlash discussion over here, and moderators who are too lazy to have RTFA will throw "+1, Insightful" mods at you for free.

    Of course, you then must live with being an utterly pathetic individual, but if you were considering doing something like this, it's probably too late to avoid that anyway.

  2. Re:Cookie Theft by TClevenger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Bastard! That song'll be in my head for a week!