Apple has released nine new patches today, designed to patch and repair several flaws in the standard OS X operating system and programs. One of the most critical of these is the flaw which allows phishers to take advantage of browsers which support the International Domain Name standard.

Safari is one such browser which supports the International Domain Name (IDN) standard, and as such users running Safari were vulnerable to the phishing attacks which take advantage of the flaw. Other browsers susceptible to the International Domain Name standard spoof include Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera.

The way that the IDN spoof works is…

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