For those who might be a
bit careless or not particularly tech savvy, you could leave yourself open to
phishing attacks. More often than not, there are emails being sent to
unsuspecting users asking them to reset their bank password, but these emails
contain links that takes the user to a website that looks like it belongs to
their bank, but in reality it is a phishing scheme.
Well
Apple wants to do away with that and
according to a recently discovered patent, the Cupertino company has explored
the idea of removing such links from websites, or at the very least prevent
them from being displayed on browsers, like Safari which is found on Apple’s OS
X and iOS platform.
How
this works is the system will attempt to detect if the link in a particular
website or email is considered to be safe. This will be done by analyzing the
URL in the link to see if it actually links to the intended website. Sometimes
how these attacks work is that they create a URL that looks similar to the
actual URL but it might be misspelt so that those who aren’t too observant will
fall for it.
Should
the system detect that the link in question is a bad one, or at least a
questionable one, it will then disable it so that users won’t be able to click
on it. It sounds like a good idea but given that it was filed back in 2013,
safe to say that Apple has yet to implement it, and considering that not all
patents are made into actual products/features, it is unclear if this one will.
Source: ubergizmo.com
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