Apple Beefs Up Its Fraudulent Website Warning With iOS 14.5 With an Added Layer of Privacy
Apple has a feature that alerts users when they?re about to visit a website that is known to host malware, or is believed to be a phishing site. The report cites Apple as saying that before visiting a website, Safari may send hashed prefixes of the URL to Google Safe Browsing to check if there’s a match. ?Up until iOS 14.5, Google could After the report in The 8-Bit, Apple?s WebKit head Maciej Stachowiak said on Twitter that while the report?s original explanation wasn?t exactly accurate, the core claim is indeed correct? This article is a bit confused on the details of how Safe Browsing works, but in the new iOS beta, Safari does indeed proxy the service via Apple servers to limit the risk of information leak.https://t.co/TlDZNMO8do? othermaciej February 11, 2021 This new iOS 14.5 feature comes at a time Apple has been raming up its data privacy efforts.
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