This weekend I noticed something that Safari was doing that is quite odd:
-I went to
www.weather.com and put my city name in the search field
-Selected "hourly" forecast for my city and the page loaded
-If I looked over the entire page (scrolled all the way to the bottom) I could hear some HDD activity, then when I hovered my mouse cursor over the back button on the browser it played an audio clip.
Baffled I went over to my dads and tried the same thing on his iMac....Same results! After messing around with it I figured out that there was this banner ad on the page (for security camera) that contained the music I was hearing when I hovered over the back button. Sometimes I'd have to reload the page multiple times to get this banner to appear (round banner with a guy walking in it). Once the banner appears if I scroll to the bottom of the page and wait a sec...viola....music on the hover.
Anyone else want to take a shot at duplicating this? Any chance this could be somehow used as another vulnerability in Safari?
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