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Apple plays catch up, adds anti fraud safeguard to Safari
Closed Published November 24th, 2008 in Browser Security, Phishing, Safari, Security
Apple yesterday 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 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. Apple plays catch-up, adds anti-fraud safeguard to Safari
