This is very bad news that just fell today, it confirms
suspicions that they had to the editor recently.
A developer has taken the time to analyze the functioning of
the Internet browser that Apple provides applications and discovered that it
was possible for a malicious person, trigger unintentional calls to a premium
rate number.
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When we voluntarily click a phone number displayed on a web
page, a confirmation is requested and the Appellate app starts dialing the
number.
Unfortunately, when the same browser is called within an
application, such as Facebook, Gmail, Facetime or other, there is no
confirmation ... As a result, it is possible to initiate calls without the user
can intercept. And this is where the old classic calls to premium rate numbers
back on the front of the stage.
Thus, the Danish developer Andrei Neculaesei described on
his blog how it was possible, using javascript language on a given page,
displayed from any application using the browser offered by Apple, to call a
premium rate number without the user can not prevent it. When he hangs up, it's
too late, it already numbered and reaches the server, leaving a few euros in
the process.
I myself have been a victim of this problem by clicking on a
recent publicity and a reader recently alerted us off on regular packages on a
non-jailbroken iPhone.
With the wide publication of the method, one can only fear
the proliferation of this type of scam.
We must now hope that Apple quickly will propose a
modification of the behavior of the browser page integrated with apps, to ask
for confirmation on appeal. Otherwise, the parade is now asking blocking these
calls on your package in case your carrier supports it.
Meanwhile, it is for each application to manage to prevent
this. Facebook said it had already started the development to avoid the problem
in its application.
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