Apple plugs 16 holes in Safari as Pwn2Own looms

ComputerWorld: Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple Inc. yesterday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine. ... Apple updated Safari for both Mac OS X and Windows to Version 4.0.5, hardening the browser before it's tossed into the ring with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome at this year's Pwn2Own hacking challenge. The contest organizer has predicted that Safari would be the first to fall when researchers battle for $40,000 in prize money beginning March 24 at the CanSecWest security conference.

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