Security News > 2020 > November > Apple iOS Safari feature can be used to share "fake news" headlines
When browsing webpages, such as news articles in the Safari web browser on an iPhone or iPad, users can choose to select and share a partial text excerpt from the page, rather than the entire page itself.
"It's actually a useful feature that's great for pointing out specific passages in blogs, news articles, and more," Juli Clover, the website's editor had said earlier.
Although findings related to this issue were made public as early as 2019, the latest Apple iOS devices continue to ship with this feature enabled.
In a timeline shared by Long with us, since Intego's 2019 blog post had warned how this feature could be abused for stock manipulation scams, more than a year went by.
On November 5th, Apple released iOS 14.2, iPadOS 14.2, and iOS 12.4.9, none of which resolved the bug.
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