Mitm new?

["Jeff Robertson" <jeff.robertson () digitalinsight com>]

Why are man-in-the-middle phishing sites suddenly talked about as a
"new" threat, as if there was rocket science involved?

For instance
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/citibank_phish_spoofs
_2factor_1.html

These things are basically proxies, which are as old as the web. Why
does it surprise anyone to see these combined with phishing? (Then
again, I still haven't figured out why phishing as we know it didn't
"take off" circa 1994)

Jeff Robertson
Manager of Web Application Security
Digital Insight

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