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Re: Phishing
From: Amit Sharma <amit.sharma () linuxwaves com>
Date: 12 May 2004 23:41:20 -0000
In-Reply-To: <OLECJFNEKBHCGJIDHKBJKENJCDAA.shivangi () safescrypt com> Thanx Guys, Phishing seems to be a major security concern involving some kinda social engineering techniques and we got some nice security tips from this list on the same. How about chromeless windows based attacks. They too have similar characteristics. Any ideas? Gracias, Amit
Received: (qmail 1464 invoked from network); 12 May 2004 22:31:18 -0000 Received: from outgoing.securityfocus.com (HELO outgoing2.securityfocus.com) (205.206.231.26) by mail.securityfocus.com with SMTP; 12 May 2004 22:31:18 -0000 Received: from lists.securityfocus.com (lists.securityfocus.com [205.206.231.19]) by outgoing2.securityfocus.com (Postfix) with QMQP id 5D1EA14370C; Thu, 13 May 2004 00:33:04 -0600 (MDT) Mailing-List: contact webappsec-help () securityfocus com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <webappsec.list-id.securityfocus.com> List-Post: <mailto:webappsec () securityfocus com> List-Help: <mailto:webappsec-help () securityfocus com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:webappsec-unsubscribe () securityfocus com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:webappsec-subscribe () securityfocus com> Delivered-To: mailing list webappsec () securityfocus com Delivered-To: moderator for webappsec () securityfocus com Received: (qmail 20847 invoked from network); 12 May 2004 11:04:06 -0000 From: "Shivangi Nadkarni" <shivangi () safescrypt com> To: <webappsec () securityfocus com> Subject: RE: Phishing Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:44:45 +0530 Message-ID: <OLECJFNEKBHCGJIDHKBJKENJCDAA.shivangi () safescrypt com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 In-Reply-To: <411553375D6CD211A5BD006097B561DE39F56C () distractor testsys com> Importance: Normal For those interested in phishing - which has seen an alarming rise in the recent past - check out www.antiphishing.org. Lots of useful info available there. cheers, Shivangi-----Original Message----- From: Sarah Elan [mailto:selan () testsys com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:42 PM To: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Phishing One hole I've seen on many large, respected sites are pages that accept any url as input and will automatically redirect to that url without (appearing to) perform any validation that the requested url is one which they want to redirect to. For example, http://www.trustme.com/url?q=http://www.phishme.com. Url?q=http://www.phishme.com can be obfuscated with the usual techniques and the user thinks he is going to trustme.com, when in fact trustme.com has blindly redirected him to phishme.com. Redirect pages should always validate against a list of known good urls. -----Original Message----- From: Jordan Dimov [mailto:jdimov () nsegcorp com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:51 AM To: webappsec () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Phishing These are good starting points, Rogan. I'd love to see further discussion on this topic.Make the site name as short as possible, and as obvious as possible, to reduce confusion. Rather than"www{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}.encrypt.bank.com",try to use something short and simple like "secure.bank.com",and use itconsistently for all servers supporting a particular application. That way there is less confusion for users, and less likelihood that a scammer will get away with using a slightly different domain name.This doesn't really protect against typographical domain name scams (e.g. paypai.com vs. paypal.com) Additionally, there are several known security vulnerabilities in MSIE and other browsers that make it much easier for attackers to hide the true identity of their fake site and mislead the user. -- Jordan Association for Information Security (www.iseca.org)
Current thread:
- RE: Phishing, (continued)
- RE: Phishing Shivangi Nadkarni (May 12)
- RE: Phishing Zoso (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Rohrer, Mark E (May 12)
- RE: Phishing Griffiths, Ian (May 12)
- Re: Phishing Rogan Dawes (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Adam Lydick (May 14)
- Re: Phishing E.Kellinis (May 15)
- RE: Phishing Griffiths, Ian (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Griffiths, Ian (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Michael Silk (May 13)
- Re: Phishing Amit Sharma (May 13)
- Re: Phishing Amit Sharma (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Pete Simpson (May 13)
- RE: Phishing Griffiths, Ian (May 14)
- RE: Phishing Adam Lydick (May 15)
- RE: Phishing Damon McMahon (May 15)
- RE: Phishing Shivangi Nadkarni (May 12)