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Once again the alarms are sounding with regards to Apple Safari’s security. Recently it has been found that the Safari’s RSS feeds are not safe to use, both on the Mac and PC. This application is vulnerable to hacker attacks and it can allow any malicious web site to bring you some really serious repercussions when using Safari to capture RSS feeds.

Once trapped by the malicious site the hackers can read files on your hard disk drive. This can lead to the access to sensitive information such as e-mails, passwords, cookies or any other private data. Even the whole user account can be taken in control by the intruders and the whole process is completely transparent to the user. The interesting fact is that this security loophole has been identified by Apple itself but it hasn’t been fixed till now. So it’s highly recommended not to use Safari for RSS.

The problem is believed to be emerged due to some issues with the Apple’s Webkit. This is because the OmniWeb users are also in the danger zone. OmniWeb is the browser used in Mac machines, like the Apple MacBook, and uses the WebKit rendering engine. RSS Feeds were introduced in Safari in 2004 but this is the first time that it has also joined the family of vulnerable applications.

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Once again the alarms are sounding with regards to Apple Safari’s security. Recently it has been found that the Safari’s RSS feeds are not safe to use, both on the Mac and PC.

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