Browser security hole on Macs and iPhones – just how bad is it?
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Naked Security
We’ve seen quite a few articles out there telling you to Beware! if you use the Safari browser, because Attackers Can Spoof URLs!
This sounds like a serious issue, worthy of the boldfaced exclamation points we’ve used above, and here’s why.
A spoofed URL is where the address bar at the top of your browser shows a website name that is deliberately and misleadingly different from the web page displayed in the browser itself. That’s not supposed to happen. The content served up by a website can display pretty much anything it wants in the main browser window, including fraudulent text and other people’s logos, but the address bar itself is supposed to be sacrosanct.
