Safari Fraud Protection

From what I have read, early developer releases of Leopard/Safari had Phishing alerts. Seems this feature never made it to the final release copy. 😟

In the meantime, I rely on 1Password for Phishing protection. This add-on works on Safari, Firefox and Camino. Very well conceived. Very reliable when it comes to Phishing protection.

Hi Apple a day,

What you wanna do with it ?? Or where are you afraid of ??

I never knew that is was out there, I use Internet since the beginning it came out .......

Dimaxum

Okay, got it ... what next ??

Dimaxum

There's been a few security warnings recently over Safari, however Apple have been good to fix those fairly swiftly.

The more public coverage Safari gets for being 'unsecure' the sooner it'll be fixed, I'm sure.

What I wanted to know, is it Apple who have to fix the security, or is it the underlying engine of safari ( http://webkit.org/) that needs to fix it?

There's nothing wrong with Safari. The so-called lack of anti-phishing technology is nothing to be concerned about. Phishing has been around for quite some time, and the inclusion of such technology will not stop the practice or prevent people from being duped if they don't stop long enough to think about what they are doing. This "technology" is a non-solution looking for a problem.

If you're so afraid of everything, it's time to turn in your computer and stay off the Internet. And if you're so impressed with the anti-phishing feature of OpenDNS, then why don't you just set your DNS servers to theirs and stop worrying?

Mulder

I don't have an attitude; I'm just pointing out the flaw in your thinking. Windoze systems are flawed in their very design, so it's not surprising they are the primary targets of phishing attacks. Nobody has hacked a Mac yet, so I'd say they're very secure.

Everyone doesn't need to use the same DNS servers. If you want more security and anti-phishing, you can use OpenDNS on your Mac. It's very easy and doesn't require anything of any other user.

Mulder

I do think Anti Phishing filters should be available in all internet browsers.
I am not surprised that Apple has not done this with Safari. I think since Safari has been ported to the Windows side it does need to think about security better then it does. Some Mac user's appear to be nieve about Mac's being secure. Phishing schemes have nothing to do with the OS.In fact several Mobile Me user's were redirected to a phishing site and gave out personal information.