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Posted by pudge on Friday December 05, 2003 @04:54PM from the updating-as-soon-as-i-post-this-story-and-quit-my-browser dept.

rgraham writes "Apple has release a new security update for the Safari cookie bug. 'Security Update 2003-12-05 updates Safari to prevent unauthorized access to a user's cookies.' They also updated the article on how to 'Configure Directory Access to Protect Your Mac From a Malicious DHCP Server.'" We posted that the other day, but this time, pictures!

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Re:Or another fix (Score:5, Insightful)

by prockcore ( 543967 ) writes: on Friday December 05, 2003 @07:31PM (#7643749)

Just don't allow cookies. (Yes, it seems too simple)

If by "fix" you mean "break a lot of functionality on sites" then yes, that certainly is an option.

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Re:Needs a reboot... (Score:3, Insightful)

by Graff ( 532189 ) writes: on Friday December 05, 2003 @10:25PM (#7644830)

killerbean:~ root# softwareupdate -d SecurityUpd2003-12-05-1.0

Man, do yourself a favor and don't use the root account if you can at all help it. Use sudo instead, it's much safer.

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