Lookout Inks Deal With Sprint, Launches Safe Browsing Service

While consumers are trained to look for tell-tale signs of a phishing attack on the desktop, spotting a scam from a mobile e-mail program or browser can be a lot more difficult. It’s often hard to tell where a link will take you before clicking and there is no “green bar” to tell you that a site is indeed who it purports to be. Lookout Mobile Security, a software company that specializes on smartphone security, is announcing its effort to make browsing on mobile devices a little safer. The new “safe browsing” feature works by checking all links against its cloud-based database, including those within text messages, Facebook and e-mail messages and offering a warning when users click on a link suspected of being a scam. The company began developing the feature as a proof of concept back in February and now it is being added as part of Lookout’s premium paid service.