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Phishing For Savvy Users
Scott Granneman, 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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Phishing For Savvy Users 2004-11-02
Anonymous
I agree this isn't as unlikely as the author suggests.

Many people do not look at the monitor while typing, just like many people do not open emails that come from unknown sources.

The big problem here is that the browser is doing nothing to "protect" those peope that will actually type out th...

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