Consumer Reports pans Safari’s lack of phishing protection

 Consumer Reports, in its annual Web safety measure survey, recommended that Mac users avoid Safari considering of its lack of phishing protection. Instead, they recommend users install Firefox 3 or Opera 9.5 as their default browsers, since both will warn users before displaying the contents of sites known to be source of scams and personal data theft.

Jeff Fox, technology editor at Consumer Reports, noted that “e-mail is the weak vector on the Mac,” meaning that most successful phishing attacks on Mac users

reach via e mail.

“Windows users are used to being paranoid about not clicking [links in phishing emails],” he said. “Mac users aren’t, even though they say, ‘Antivirus software, who needs it?’”

As we’ve mentioned before, 1Password does a great job of adding phishing protection to Safari. plus, always be extra-wary of clicking hyperlinks in emails from citizens you don’t know.

[Via Computerworld.]

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[Source] Robert Palmer