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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. Safari and Konqueror by CliffH · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Just a quick question to throw out there.

    I know Safari uses KHTML as its rendering engine (ala Konqueror). How much more of the Konqueror code is used in Safari and could Konq possibly face this same issue and no one has stumbled on it? Forgive me if it's a stupid question, I've had about 2 hours sleep, my car broke down after taking my wife to work at 4am, and now I have to wait up because it's too late to get back to sleep before picking her up and waking up my son. Sounds like a lousy country song, huh. :)

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