, 2004-11-01
Recent "phishing" episodes, and two new browser vulnerabilities, show how the bad guys are tricking people into exposing their passwords and bank accounts. Couldn't happen to tech-savvy users, right? Unless you consider how entire nations have been fooled.
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However, it is a bit of a stretch to go from those to old fashioned confidence games dressed in 21st century electronic camoflage. While "tech-savvy" isn't required to detect these, "street smart" is.
However, this is really just a nit pick about the secunia alerts ... three of the browsers listed:
Camino 0.8
Opera 7.54
Konqueror 3.2.2-6
are only vulnerable to one of the two Secunia vulnerabilites. The next release of Opera is supposed to have fixed theirs as well.
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