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Mobile Safari Vulnerability Discovered In iOS 5.1 – Allows URL Spoofing
0March 23, 2012
by _GadgetNews
in Apple, Applications, Browser, Development, Hacks, iOS, iOS 5.0.1, Mobile Safari, News, OS, Safari, Security, Software, Tech
If you are using Mobile Safari on iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 5.1, than you should be cautious of a security issue that involves address bar spoofing. The issue was discovered by David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity, and involves “an error within the handling of URLs when using javascript’s window open() method.” This can be exploited by malicious sites to display custom URLs, potentially fooling users into supplying personal information to a malicious website (since the Safari address bar can display a totally different address than the website that is actually being More >

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