Thursday, March 22, 2012

Safari iOS 5.1 : Dangerous Vulnerability Discovered

A new vulnerability was discovered in Safari iOS 5.1, resulting in a vulnerability to kick a very serious security problem: well, it appears that it is possible to visit a link in Safari, making him display a fake URL. Consider this: on this screenshot, Safari displays "apple.com" while this web page is hosted on the site of Major Security.


You can also repeat the experiment yourself, simply go to This Address (using Mobile Safari) and press the "Demo". This vulnerability also runs iOS 5.0.1 also.


Caution : The potential misuse of this fault are obvious, one might well make you think you are on the website of your bank, for example, and push you to provide sensitive information while you are on a malicious site.
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