Safari RSS Security Vulnerability

Jan 13, 2009

Apple

Disclosure of information vulnerability in Safari

Setting your default RSS reader in Safari preferences to something other than Safari should protect you on a Mac, Safari on Windows users should temporarily switch to another browser (Chrome is good)

To Switch your default RSS reader:

Open Safari and select Preferences… from the Safari menu.
Choose the RSS tab from the top of the Preferences window.
Click on the Default RSS reader pop-up and select an application other than Safari.

It should be noted that a clean Leopard install by default chooses Mail.app to be the default RSS reader so long as Mail is being used by the User.

Props to Brian Mastenbrook and John Gruber

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