36 month ago
kayodeok : Two Things That Bother Me About Google's New Firefox Extension - What information does the extension send to Google? To find out, I intercepted the traffic between my Firefox browser and google.com. For every request you make, the extension invokes /safebrowsing/lookup on http://www.google.com. So, if you were to goto
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36 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Extremely well-designed anti-phishing extension from Google. #
kayodeok : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophis
jimray : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - This is a great idea, I just can't help but think that your typical IE user would be better served by such a thing, though
Philippe Janvier : Google Safe Browsing for Firefox - "...an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences." [via] #
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Browser Makers Band Together Against Phishers - The basic plan would be for all browsers to tint the address bar green when users visit major-brand sites with a "highly-assured" digital certificate. Suspicious sites that might be sources of phishing scams would be indicated by a red address bar. A padl
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37 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Better Website Identification and Extended Validation Certificates in IE7 and Other Browsers - When the Phishing Filter is in use, IE will fill the address bar with red for known phishing sites and with yellow for suspected phishing sites
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37 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : New enhancements to Phishing Filter protection for IE - Today Microsoft announced agreements with three new data providers who will regularly supply information to us on thousands of confirmed phishing Web sites to help ensure the URL reputation service that helps power the Phishing Filter is running with the
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar - Requires Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
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kayodeok : Phishing Without Computers: Beijingers fall victim to SMS scam - A Beijing resident surnamed Wang never thought a text message on his mobile phone would cost him more than 150,000 yuan (US$18,500)
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39 month ago
kayodeok : The Demise of the Anti-phishing Toolbar? - EarthLink lands a win, according to ZDNet, after being sued by a bank incorrectly flagged as a phishing website
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39 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Phishing Filter in IE7 - To use Phishing Filter, you will have to decide if you want to automatically check sites you visit against the list of known phishing sites on the Microsoft server, or if you only want to check when you have reason to suspect a site and opt out of automat
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Phishing Filter at a Glance - Microsoft is committed to helping stop phishing and to making the Internet and information technology safer and more secure for the entire global online community
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40 month ago
kayodeok : IEBlog : Principles behind IE7’s Phishing Filter - The prime directive of the Phishing Filter feature is to help protect users from phishing websites, while maintaining user privacy and being transparent and flexible about how we do it
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40 month ago
kayodeok : New Microsoft Phishing Filter and Games Add-Ins Provide More Tools for MSN Search Toolbar - First phishing filter for any Web search toolbar and easy access to MSN Games offer great options for MSN Search Toolbar users
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kayodeok : FeedMail turns email on it's head - Instead of throwing messages at people, messages are sent back and forth across secure RSS feeds
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kayodeok : The Pharming Guide: Understanding and Preventing DNS-related Attacks by Phishers (pdf) - This paper, extending the original material of "The Phishing Guide", examines in depth the workings of the name services of which Internet- based customers are dependant upon, and how they can be exploited by Pharmers to conduct identity theft and financ
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40 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : PHP email injection attacks
kayodeok : Email Injection - SecurePHP - There are a lot of ways to send anonymous emails, some use it to mass mail, some use it to spoof identity, and some (a few) use it to send email anonymously
Simon Willison : Email Injection - SecurePHP - Here's a PHP hole I hadn't heard about.
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Opera Watch: The Unofficial Opera Blog: Opera to stop spoofing User Agent as IE - In a step that should move Opera to a higher position on the browser usage statistics charts, Opera will change the default browser User Agent (UA) to identify itself as Opera – no more as Internet Explorer (IE)
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Bank to require more than passwords - With SiteKey, bank customers pick three challenge questions - things only the customer would know, such as the year and model of the customer's first car -- and provide them with the traditional password to log on
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42 month ago
kayodeok : One man's fight against e-mail spam - How Meng Wong's venture with Microsoft (on Sender ID) ended with a lesson
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kayodeok : The Battle against phishing: Dynamic Security Skins - Dynamic Security Skins allows a remote web server to prove its identity in a way that is easy for a human user to verify and hard for an attacker to spoof.
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42 month ago
kayodeok : IE pop-up spoofing problem won't get patch - More details can be found in Microsoft Security Advisory (902333) under the FAQ Section
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Microsoft Security Advisory (902333): Browser windows without indications of their origins may be used in phishing attempts - Microsoft has investigated a public report of a phishing method that affects Web browsers in general, including Internet Explorer
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Secunia - Multiple Browsers Dialog Origin Vulnerability Test - You are vulnerable, if a JavaScript dialog box appears in front of the Google.com web site without displaying information about its origin
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Spoofing Flaw Haunts IE, Firefox, Safari - The vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious hackers to trick surfers into disclosing confidential information, including credit card and social security numbers
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kayodeok : Hostile Profiling: You are exposed (if you register with sites that use email addresses as identifiers) - Armed with your email address alone, spammers and phishers know almost anything about you, including your place of residence, hobbies, political views, purchasing preferences or even the state of your health
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43 month ago
kayodeok : Phishers get personal - Web sites that use e-mail addresses as identifiers for password reminders and registration are open to exploitation by scammers to generate detailed profiles of people
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