Carpet Bombing

As far as I know, "carpet bombing" has nothing to do with computing. Developed by the British head of Bomber Command, Air Vice Marshal Arthur "Bomber" Harris, and copied by the United States, this is a strategy that is aiming at weakening morale and destroying entire cities. Since World War II, things have changed a lot, and now we're in a full scale war against malware, including attack codes used to exploit various weaknesses of computer software. Unfortunately, today Apple has been hit by such an attack, only a day after updating QuickTime and fixing some issues with that program...


OK, now here's the secret link between carpet bombing and computer software - a hacker just made public attack code that can be used to exploit critical flaws in both Safari and Internet Explorer, and the Safari bug that's being targeted allows attackers to mess with the executable files located on the desktop of the victim, this being an attack known as "carpet bombing." Got it know?The interesting part comes when talking about the fixes for these problems, because Microsoft seems to beat Apple on this one. How's that possible? Well, the Safari bug was discovered on the 15th of May, and it seems they have no plans to patch it, while Microsoft released a security advisory regarding this problem on the 30th of May, so they'll probably come up with a fix pretty soon.Oh, my...whatta pity! Anyway, I won't stop using Safari for Windows yet. After all, there's no perfect browser yet, and while Safari may not be the safest one, it surely has a lot of other qualities!

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