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RE: [Full-Disclosure] New Attack on Secure Browsing (fwd)
- To: Brad Griffin <b.griffin@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] New Attack on Secure Browsing (fwd)
- From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:38:30 -0500 (CDT)
This is Social Engineering, and a damn fine example!
This is in fact a pretty good fake-out: I'm sorry I didn't think of it
myself.
The obvious use here is in phishing expeditions: people *expect* that
little lock to be somewhere on the screen, but how many of them would
think "oh. it's in the wrong place - it's fake."? Far too few I'm
afraid.
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Yours,
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@xxxxxxx
"...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do
not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out
about them." Osama Bin Laden
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"There aught to be limits to freedom!" George Bush
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Which one scares you more?
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