Friday, September 11, 2009

New iPhone Anti-Phishing Feature Fails Researchers discover iPhone OS 3.1's anti-phishing feature is not working properly



Sep 10, 2009 | 03:46 PM By Kelly Jackson Higgins

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The new Apple iPhone OS 3.1 software comes with a new anti-phishing feature for the Mobile Safari browser, but researchers say the filter doesn't work.




"I've not been able to get it to block anything," says Michael Sutton, vice president of research at Zscaler, who has been testing the mobile browser's security feature against several phishing sites identified on PhishTank. While Apple's Safari for the desktop blocks many of the sites, the iPhone's mobile version didn't block any that he tested.



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