Security Threat: iPhone Web Dialer

[engine]

Security researchers at SPI Labs Inc. are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone's Safari browser.

The feature was created to give iPhone users a simple way to dial phone numbers listed on Web pages, but according to SPI, the feature could be misused.

Security Threat iPhone Web Dialer [pcworld.com]

[edited by: engine at 3:33 pm (utc) on July 24, 2007]

[eelixduppy]

Very interesting. This opens up a new category of malicious scripting. I guess it was only a matter of time.