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Researcher warns of data-snooping bug in Apple's Safari

 
Mac or Windows, equal pwnage opportunity Apple's Safari web browser for both the Mac and Windows suffers from a serious vulnerability that can expose emails, passwords and other sensitive contents of a user's hard drive, a researcher has warned.… (link)

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