Apple patches three Safari flaws in Windows

Well, that was fast. As you'll recall, Apple released a beta of Safari 3.0 for Windows on Monday and before the day was out, hackers had released details on a number of security flaws in the browser. A mere three days later, however, Apple has released a fix for at least one of those flaws, a remote code execution bug found by Danish hacker Thor Larholm, as well as two previously unknown flaws (it's worth noting that none of these flaws affect the OS X versions of the browser). While this is certainly an encouraging turn of events (given the usual 2-3 month wait for IE patches), we shouldn't forget that four denial-of-service bugs and two remote execution vulnerabilities, discovered by "MacBook hacker" David Maynor, still remain. Will Apple be able to keep up with Windows hackers? Stay tuned.

For more on the patches:
- see this ZDnet article