As part of the most recent iPhone 1.1.1 update (available through iTunes), Apple has included a number of important security fixes. This blog (and its associated book) is not “Internet Security for Your iPhone,” so we don’t want to dwell on the details, but, since many of the fixes are to Safari, they certainly could be relevant to Internet security for your Macintosh.

It turns out most of the Safari fixes seem to be iPhone specific, for instance relating to URLs that cause the phone to dial. Beyond that, they’re also pretty esoteric, dealing mainly with Javascript and “cross-site scripting,” an advanced hack requiring a user to visit a maliciously crafted Web site while being logged into another Web site at the same time. So it seems the fixes aren’t really all the relevant to us Mac users after all. Nonetheless, it’s good to stay on top of these sort of things since they often can matter to the Rest of Us.

Also, of course, many of the Rest of Us are getting iPhones (or iPod touches) these days!