Right on the download page for Safari, Apple states they designed their new browser to be "secure from day one" -- but what about day zero? It seems that within the first day of Safari's release into the Internet jungle, six security vulnerabilities have been found. The vulnerabilities -- including DoS (Denial of Service), memory corruption, and remote code execution bugs --  were discovered by security experts Aviv Raff, David Maynor, and Thor Larholm, and posted on their respective blogs.

Thor Larholm claims that within 2 hours of use, he located a "fully functional command execution vulnerability", while Aviv Raff says that within a moments of using Hamachi (a community-developed utility for verifying browser integrity) he was able to find a potentially exploitable memory corruption problem. Finding holes in the defenses of Apple's software is not a new hobby taken up by Aviv Raff -- previously,  he worked on the "Month of Apple bugs", which was a publishing of information outlying multiple vulnerabilities in Apple software.  

Although this is only a beta release of Safari 3, this security discoveries may give second thoughts to some of security-conscientious of the PC user-base that Apple hopes to woe. Apple claims that Safari is twice as fast IE7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2 at rendering web pages, in addition to having a superior user interface. However, on the Safari download page, out of the twelve reasons Apple gives for loving Safari, security comes up in the last spot -- we here at Neoseeker hope that this twelfth place position is not indicative of its priority in Safari's further development.