News: iPhone URL Display Feature Poses Security Threat

2010-11-30 09:08:26 / Mac Observer

The system the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch use to display Web sites within apps offers hackers an easy way to trick users into visiting malicious Web pages posing as legit sites, according to security research specialist Nitesh Dhanjani. The spoof involves Apple’s UIWebView API and iOS’s ability to hide the URL field once a page loads.