Browser/Phishing Exploit
Anyone who uses a modern, non-:IE: browser (Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, etc.) should go check out this post on Boing Boing about a new exploit. It is a hole opened by the browsers’ support of the International Domain Name (IDN) feature; it allows someone to spoof a domain name and send the user somewhere else. With the rapid growth of phishing attacks recently, this is actually a fairly serious threat.
For Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko users, the Boing Boing post linked above has a way to disable the feature that allows this exploit.
Posted Monday February 7, 2005 in News by Chris Curtis
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Ew, thanks for sharing. BoingBoing’s not been on my regular browsing ring for some time, so I would have had to catch this news somewhere else I guess.
By Derek Jones on February 7, 2005 at 03:13pm link