I've always considered phishing to be more of a social engineering bug than technical, but it still pays to watch your browser.
1 posted on
01/05/2005 10:21:24 AM PST by
ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
2 posted on
01/05/2005 10:21:54 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
The more popular you are, the bigger of a target is painted on your back.
If FireFox was THE browser of the web, the same freaks who live and die to hate Microsoft right now would be slamming Firefox.
Its just the natural order of things.
6 posted on
01/05/2005 10:24:30 AM PST by
smith288
(I have posted over 10,000 times. The more I post, the more intelligent you become!)
To: ShadowAce
Thx for the update and post.
7 posted on
01/05/2005 10:24:32 AM PST by
Ginifer
("All great spirits have encountered opposition from mediocre minds" - A. Einstein)
To: ShadowAce
As Firefox becomes increasingly popular, we'll probably see more of these vulnerabilities found and exploited.
To: ShadowAce
So you're telling me I gotta go back to browsing with IE?
12 posted on
01/05/2005 10:29:12 AM PST by
b4its2late
(Liberals are good examples of why some animals eat their young.)
To: ShadowAce
To: ShadowAce
Wonder if these hackers received any compensation from MS?
To: ShadowAce
I'll be interested in seeing how long it takes to fix this. I run Mozilla Nightlies, so I'll be testing it out when it is released.
18 posted on
01/05/2005 10:38:28 AM PST by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: All; ShadowAce
I just checked out
Bugzilla's note about this. It would appear that it's a presentation "bug" in that if your dialog window is not big enough, the entire URL may not be shown. See bold text below. Workaround, is to expand (or maximize) the dialog box so that you can see the entire URL of the download.
To go along with the download box spoof reported in bug SA12712 Jakob Balle submits a demonstration to make the download dialog more convincing by obscuring the software source. The demo takes advantage of the default length truncation (similar to truncation of the filename in bug 258601). While the dialog /can/ be resized to see the whole url, most people won't think to do that or even know it's possible.
19 posted on
01/05/2005 10:44:09 AM PST by
zeugma
(Come to the Dark Side...... We have cookies!)
To: ShadowAce
So much for it being more "bulletproof" than IE. Just the perks that come with popularity.
22 posted on
01/05/2005 11:01:02 AM PST by
BigSkyFreeper
(PEST/Suicide Hotline 1-800-BUSH-WON)
To: Tragically Single
Ping. Just in case you didn't see it.
36 posted on
01/05/2005 11:29:50 AM PST by
terabyte
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