Microsoft Restrict Apple's Safari Web Browser on Windows

Microsoft has announced a warning about Safari's vulnerability. Actually, it? has been found by researcher Nitesh Dhanjani about two weeks ago, and it was called carpet bombing vulnerability, it's a bug that cause Safari to download resources from website without bother to ask user's permission.

In Windows, this vulnerability can cause malicious files to be downloaded from an attacker's website to the Windows default download folder, desktop folder. And this can be dangerous, for example there is a probability that the downloaded files maybe using familiar icon such as My Computer's icon, Windows Explorer's icon, etc, and user just run the program without knowing the danger.

Unfortunately, Apple's security team said they didn't see this as a security issue, but as a further measure against unwanted downloads. Microsoft urges windows user to shut down Safari until they find solution about this vulnerability.

So, Mac users can just ignore this vulnerability. Hey, wait a minute, Dhanjani also said that this carpet bombing can happen on OS X too. Is it one for Microsoft and none for Apple's?

Amazon's Streaming Video Coming

CEO of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, has made a statement about the launching of the new streaming video service for amazon.com in the next several weeks. It will be pay-per-view based streaming.

There also will be an integration between Amazon and TiVo so that users can rent video from Amazon's Unbox service. The difference between this streaming video service with Unbox service is that the video won't need to be downloaded to user's computer. The new service will start in U.S in a few weeks.

Amazon and iTunes has been compete each other as rival in digital media offerings. Bezos once said that this new service was taking direct aim at iTunes. So, let's just wait for the referee to say "And the winner is...".