Apple announced that a patch has been issued for the recently discovered security vulnerabilities. The majority of the acknowledged problems concerned the failure of iChat and Safari to properly validate downloads.
Day: March 9, 2006
Spyware Study
One of my favorite “sources” on all things digital is Leo Laporte (of TechTV fame). I listen to his TWIT podcast whenever possible.
In support of his preference for FireFox in comparison to IE, Leo described a University of Washington study on spyware. I searched Google for the University of Washington and spyware and found descriptions of the study. The “executive summary” (the link I provide) outlines how frequent spyware seems to be based on the research and describes the types of sites that seem most likely to distribute spyware. The full study (available in pdf form) gets into the issue of browsers.