Some protection researchers think that the fact that the iPhone lets you tap a phone number to dial it in Safari and Mail is a potential protection risk. They warn that you could be tricked into dialing expensive 1-900 numbers or, worse, your iPhone could be trapped into a malicious loop or its dialing capabilities disabled.
While it’s true that the potential for malicious applications exist, other safety measure researchers say that the iPhone risk is being overblown.
“If you can construct calls from the Web browser, you can buildfake calls from the Web browser,” [Dave Aitel, chief technology officer with Immunity] said via instant report.
The rule of thumb here is, honestly, the same as it’s ever been. Try to avoid suspect websites or spam emails that lure you into clicking on urls. Remember that you can use the iPhone’s pop up link trick to verify hyperlinks (unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that that works for phone number urls in Safari just yet, but perhaps Apple will change that).
Original post by Dan Moren
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