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No relief from Microsoft phishing bug
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-01-13

Tuesday's edition of Microsoft's monthly bundle of security advisories features an omission that should keep online fraud artists and identity thieves happy: over one month after its discovery, there is no official patch available for a bug in Internet Explorer that lets swindlers pass off counterfeit websites as the real thing.

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No relief from Microsoft phishing bug 2004-01-15
Coldman
The advice from Microsoft is quite reasonable, but it seems that some misinterpret it: "...to help protect yourself from **malicious** hyperlinks is not to click them..." - they are talking about _malicious_ links, so the irony from Mr. Cooper makes a little sense (or not at all). There is another a...

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