iPhone OS 3.1 Phishing Protection Falling Short
The anti-phishing feature for the iPhone OS 3.1 isn't all it's cracked up to be, according to security researchers.
For whatever reason, some researchers have found, phishing sites blocked by the desktop version of Apple Safari are not consistently blocked by the mobile version. Since Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 upgrade on Sept. 8, testers have found that the performance of the anti-phishing feature has been spotty.
"The Mac Security Blog has reported seeing inconsistencies among iPhones, with some blocking and others not," said Michael Sutton, vice president of research at Zscaler. "Based on this information, it would appear that the problems lie with update mechanisms reporting phishing sites to the phone, as opposed to the blocking functionality itself."
