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Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-feel-better-already dept.

CrazyCanucklehead writes "Security Researcher Michael Sutton discusses his findings when looking at the advertised anti-phishing features in the recently released iPhone OS 3.1. It turns out that the protection is far less than what is provided in OS X and the feature may not provide any protection at all."

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I've got built-in phishing protection. by stokessd · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not frickin' rocket science.

    Instead of putting all this effort into anti-phishing technology, we should make people less stupid.

    The problem is that the API for "people" is really old, and many of the functions appear to be deprecated (see driving a non-syncromesh manual transmission, hunting, fabricating arrow points, etc). It's much easier to foam rubber coat the world, than to try to make "people" smarter (See modern playgrounds for freshly instantiated "people").

    Sheldon

  2. Re:Snap judgements by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Informative

    He went to the popular testing site Phishtank and tried the phone out against a bunch of different phishing attempts. He says not one was blocked.