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“The vulnerability affects Firefox as well as Safari,” Matasano Chargen reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: The story clarifies. As it always seems to do after the damage is done in the media (meanwhile, Mac users continue to surf the Web unaffected). So, that’s some Mac OS X “hack,” huh? Ten grand and a MacBook Pro for that? Pfft. We await InfoWorld’s next hysterical headline regarding this developing story with bated breath.
MacDailyNews Note: To protect yourself from this unreleased-in-the-wild, yet extremely over-publicized scourge, in Safari’s Preferences, uncheck “Enable Java” in the “Security” tab. In Firefox’s Preferences, uncheck “Enable Java” in the “Content” tab.
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