Apple yesterday updated Safari to version 5.1.4, patching 83 vulnerabilities and boosting JavaScript performance on OS X Lion. The patch count was a record for Safari 5, which Apple released in June 2010, three months before launching OS X Snow Leopard. Of the 83 vulnerabilities, Apple tacitly classified 72 as critical. Apple tagged them all as memory corruption bugs that could be triggered by visiting a malicious site. None of the vulnerabilities have been used in actual attacks, however, however. The update easily beat Safari 5’s former record of 62 patches, set in March 2011.”]

