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New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL
Ken Treis writes "SANS Internet Storm Center is reporting on a new strain of IE Malware. This one targets bank customers, which in itself is nothing new. But the catch is in the way it does it: it installs a Browser Help Object (BHO) that can capture login information before it is encrypted, and 'watches for HTTPS (secure) access to URLs of several dozen banking and financial sites in multiple countries.'."
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fr1st p9st!
OH damn, bad news.
Personally, I use Opera on Linux, and Safari on MacOS X.
you lose
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Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere.
It's ok. I'll just wardial the number in your sig instead.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
It seems that some people have been studieng...
It looks like hunting season has been opened...
IE users, do yourself a favor and start listening to all the bright people on here telling you to use Firefox or Opera...
I use Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox since 0.4 and am happy since.
Unlike the domain name, that will not be fraudulant:
host www.refestltd.com
66.226.64.11
whois 66.226.64.0
Abacus America Inc.
ABAC
5276 Eastgate Mall
San Diego
CA
support@aplus.net
All's true that is mistrusted
Why does fire fow sometimes have the slashdot text appear over the menus and links to the right of the posts? IE and opera don't have this problem.
when Mozilla/FireFox fix the caching problem (how hard is it to use the url as part of the cache file name?) and when they unbreak JavaScript. Who knows what else is broken.
Older versions of Moz/FF work fine with my JavaScript 3D pages. The latest versions don't. It's kind of hard to imagine a good reason why something that worked as it was supposed to in an older version no longer works.
In the mean time I use IE exclusivly and have never had any problems.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
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So your real name is Fuzzy Bad Mofo? Or could one say that you are posting anonymously?
My real name is Miss Information.
and here firefox on OS X.
BTW, this is my first post of the day, and slashdot.org told me to slow down because I just posted one 18 seconds ago, could this be a bad signal?
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
Nope, you should just be smart about your office desktop's security settings and perhaps even use the browser-help-object (BHO) listing tool noted in the linked article: http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm. I just checked my desktop, and it wasn't infected; so I'll still do banking online and continue to be wary of security issues.
That could be translated to "Nope, i dont use a condom because I'm smart, i just carry a AIDS test and check my partners every time".
Just plain dumb and inefficient.
replying to your sig more than the post..if you've ever lived in LA (Hollywood especially), that isn't much to live on. If you want to have any sort of relations with the females around here making that much is a bare minimum unfortunatley, and they pretty much always ask you how much you make within 5 minutes of striking up a conversation.
in bed.
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Testinf isn't a good idea...takes too long for the results to come back, ruining the mood
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