Latest IE Flaws Provide Opportunity for Phishers
Filed in: Microsoft, Security — October 18th, 2004
The latest Internet Explorer security holes offer new ways for phishing scams to present realistic spoofs of financial web sites. One of the flaws allow fraudsters to display the URL of a trusted site in Internet Explorer’s address bar, while presenting content from a different web page in the browser window. Another vulnerability could allow sophisticated attackers to create spoofed pages displaying the golden “lock” icon indicating a secure SSL session, which has often been cited as a differentiator between legitimate sites and scams.
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Thought:
Run Windows Update and use Firefox!
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