Goatse Finds Reveals Another Gaping Hole in iPad, This Time in Safari

Apple can't be happy with AT&T's epic security fail

Editor’s note: Ansel Halliburton is a lawyer at ComputerLaw Group, a boutique law firm in Palo Alto specializing in intellectual property litigation and entrepreneurship. Follow him on Twitter. In the summer of 2010, a group called Goatse Security (or GoatSec) discovered a security hole in an AT&T website catering to users of the recently launched iPad with 3G connectivity.

FBI may have trouble prosecuting the Goatse Security team given how easy the info was available

Apple’s Safari 5.1 browser, available pre-loaded in the new Mac OS X Lion, or available to download on PCs and Macs, has taken this whole business of copying the iPad waaaay to far, annoying Macolytes to no end.

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Updates to Apple's Safari browser address a trio of security issues, one specific to Windows, as well as delivering compatibility improvements. The iWeb web page creation program has also been updated.

Apple's latest set of security updates covers a relatively short list of issues, but Mac OS X and iOS are both affected, along with Safari for Mac and Windows.

That’s a wrap! Apple made a lot of announcements today.

Today at Apple’s press event, the company announced that the iPad would receive an update. In order to harmonize the product line, the iPad will now come with a Lightning port. A6X and expanded LTE will be added to the iPad as well. The Lightning port is a good addition for iPhone 5 customers who are going to buy an iPad before the holidays.