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Friday Security Fun

Posted by pudge on from the updating-as-soon-as-i-post-this-story-and-quit-my-browser dept.

rgraham writes "Apple has release a new security update for the Safari cookie bug. 'Security Update 2003-12-05 updates Safari to prevent unauthorized access to a user's cookies.' They also updated the article on how to 'Configure Directory Access to Protect Your Mac From a Malicious DHCP Server.'" We posted that the other day, but this time, pictures!

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  1. Re:Or another fix by SillyWilly · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has been suggested that even disabling Cookies won't help: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/344992 As I understand it, this is because in Safari disabling cookies merely prevents creation of new cookies and not access to old ones. Therefore you should delete all cookies first.

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  2. Re:Needs a reboot... by Rosyna · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of apps use WebKit (Help, Sherlock, Safari, Mail) so it's easier to tell users to restart than to tell them to log out or to quit all those applications. A person that knows what they are doing will just force quit the installer.

  3. Some links by blb · · Score: 5, Informative

    The knowledgebase article for 10.2.8 and for 10.3.1.