Apple plays catch-up, adds anti-fraud safeguard to Safari
Apple on Friday added anti-phishing protection to Safari, the last major browser to receive the feature that blocks known identity-stealing sites. The company also patched 11 security bugs in the program, the bulk of them specific to the Microsoft Windows version.
Released on Thursday, Safari 3.2 includes a new feature, dubbed "Fraudulent sites" in the browser's options listing. However, Apple did not update either Safari's help file or its online documentation with any additional information about the tool, including how it works, what database it uses to "blacklist" sites and whether it relays URLs back to Apple for checking or relies on a locally-stored database.
The Safari 3.2 end-user licensing agreement (EULA) does not include any mention of the new tool, and Apple did not respond to questions about the feature.
