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Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs On the iPhone
CWmike writes "Exploiting an Apple interface design, identity thieves can hide URLs on the iPhone's limited screen real estate, tricking users into thinking they're at a legitimate site, a security researcher said on Monday. Nitesh Dhanjani demonstrated how criminals can easily hide the true URL of a site from users by building a malicious Web application. 'Note that on the iPhone, this only happens for sites that follow directives in HTML to advertise themselves as mobile sites,' said Dhanjani on his personal blog and in an entry on the SANS Institute's blog. The ability to hide the address bar in iOS is by design, noted Dhanjani, who said he had reported the problem to Apple. 'I did contact Apple about this issue and they let me know they are aware of the implications but do not know when and how they will address the issue,' he said."
How is that? When i press on a link and hold down, on my iphone, it gives me the full address, the option to copy the link, open the link, or open in a new page. I guess i'm special!
The stock Android browser hides the address bar, so you need to scroll up slightly to see it. That's all that this attack is relying on. My HTC Desire does it.
This isn't an Apple problem, this article is an Apple-bashing troll. Kill it.
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