Re: Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

["Clint Bodungen" <clint () secureconsulting com>]

Please see my original post... oh wait... I'll paste it.

I don't really think it will make that much of a difference their profits
considering anyone dumb enough to fall for those scams isn't going to know
the difference between an IP address in the URL box and a "spoofed" domain.
I had a client fall for an eBay scam and the end resulting domain in the URL
box was damn near www.robbingyoublinddamngringo.com.  I can see where a more
effective scam would be, like you hinted at, the infamous microsoft security
update emails.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Feher Tamas" <etomcat () freemail hu>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:23 AM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability


> Unless the bug has already been exploited by malicious people, it was
> a highly irresponsible act to disclose it to the public, without giving
> Microsoft a reasonable timeframe to produce a fix. It may even qualify
> as a crime!
>
> Considering the simplicity of this URL faking trick, it will be certainly
see
> active use by scammers during this Christmas shopping season and
> thousands of people will be robbed of their online banking accounts,
> etc. The money will boost organized crime and the whole society will
> suffer. A patch would give customers at least a theoretical chance to
> protect themselves and the community.
>
> I certainly would not object to ZapDingbat getting sued for a few billion
> bucks by M$ or the US Gov't sending him to a long recreation at
> Guantanamo Bay. People like him discredit security research like
> nothing else and his acts contribute towards legislation that will curb
> people's right to investigate code.
>
> Regards: Tamas Feher.
>
>
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