{"id":3788,"date":"2007-07-18T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T06:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/integoblog.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:47:54","slug":"is-your-iphone-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/is-your-iphone-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your iPhone Safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the iPhone just a few weeks old, the first security issue has appeared. It’s not a virus, a worm, or a Trojan horse, but a weakness in the iPhone’s Web dialing feature. As Macworld reports<\/a>, this feature can be exploited, causing iPhone users to unknowingly dial expensive phone numbers (such as 900 numbers) or continuously dial certain numbers. While you’d have to visit a malicious web site for this to occur, it’s best to turn off this feature, since you could land on a malicious web site without knowing. Just dial your numbers manually. After all, that’s easy enough to do with just a few taps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the iPhone just a few weeks old, the first security issue has appeared. It’s not a virus, a worm, or a Trojan horse, but a weakness in the iPhone’s Web dialing feature. As Macworld reports, this feature can be exploited, causing iPhone users to unknowingly dial expensive phone numbers (such as 900 numbers) or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t