Safari 3

• Anti-phishing measures already turning up in Safari 3 builds

By AppleInsider Staff

Published: 02:00 PM EST on Thursday, October 19 2006.

Security enhancements that will protect users of Apple Computer's forthcoming Safari 3.0 Web browser from malicious websites have already begun to appear in the latest builds of the company's next-generation Leopard operating system.

According to published reports, the "anti-phishing" features, first described by AppleInsider last week, are accessible to developers testing the latest pre-release distribution of Leopard, build 9A283.

Through interaction with Google's AntiTrust database, Safari 3.0 is able to automatically detecting "phishy" or deceitful website URLs. It then notifies the user via a dialog box, webpage overlay, or a combination of the two.

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Opera

• Better phishing protection for Opera

For the forthcoming version 9.1 of the browser, Opera developers are planning to add in phishing protection, comparable to the anti-phishing functions in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2. Each time a website is surfed for the first time Opera will submit the site to a checking service, hosted on the Opera servers, which accesses databases supplied by GeoTrust. The browser submits the domain and the hash value of the complete URL.

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Go to Heise Security website.