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Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories)
From: Richard Cox <richard () mandarin com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:21:11 +0000 (GMT)
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:05:41 -0400 (EDT) "David Lesher" <wb8foz () nrk com> wrote: | I wonder if the banks have ever considered how they have contributed | to the problem. If their pages were straight up, no pop-up's, no | JavaVirus, etc.... it would be far easier to tell their customers: | | ============================================================== | Here is what our page looks like: | | The address ALWAYS starts with: https;//www.countrybank.com/... | | With a page like this. [graphic image] | If you have pop-ups, or a different page, stop... | | ============================================================== | | But of course, that would not be glitzy enough.... No matter how often they told customers that, a sufficient percentage would ALWAYS be susceptible to the fraudsters' social engineering ... That feature seems to be hard-coded into the class $customer -- Richard Cox
Current thread:
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories, (continued)
- Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories Doug White (Aug 15)
- Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Niels Bakker (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Henry Linneweh (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Mark Kasten (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Alexei Roudnev (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Sean Donelan (Aug 16)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) David Lesher (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Joel Jaeggli (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Richard Cox (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Petri Helenius (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Alexei Roudnev (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Eric Kuhnke (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Tim Wilde (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Edward B. Dreger (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Petri Helenius (Aug 17)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Brett (Aug 18)
- Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories) Christopher L. Morrow (Aug 17)