Features: anti-phishing protection Safari 3.2
The latest version of Safari launched a couple of weeks ago has as its main novelty the incorporation of protection against fraudulent websites, enabled by default in the Security pane of the preference of the browser. In this way, Safari 3.2 alerts us when we try to visit a site “known” to contain malware (viruses, trojans and other crap) or simulating be the site of a bank or corporation for the purpose of getting our personal or financial data.
The information provided by Apple on this but did not give much for the kids of Macworld say that in reality it is nothing short of the Google Safe Browsing technology developed by the giant search three years ago as an adjunct to Firefox to be integrated later in the version 2.0 and recently in the beta of Chrome.
The operation of this technology is based on two blacklists drawn up by Google with fraudulent addresses (one for sites with malware and another for Web pages that are moving those who are not in reality) that are stored in safebrowsing.clients.google. com. Obviously, Google needs to know the URL of the page you are visiting we want to be able to show a warning in case of any difficulties with it so when you launch Safari, this will download an updated copy of the domain trouble. If you try to access any of them, the browser encodes the full URL and sends it to Google for the check. If matched, shows us the warning concerned. More »
Tags: anti-phishing, Safari 3.2