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Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available
miller60 writes "Netcraft has just released the Firefox version of its anti-phishing toolbar, which blocks known phishing sites and suspicious urls, and displays the hosting information and risk rating for visited sites. Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites since the IE version was released in late December."
I work as a sysadmin and I recently sent out an e-mail about phishing just as a general warning. As I was walking around to the other offices one of my co-workers said she wished I had sent that out a week ago and that she had just recently been phished. I got htat from two other people in the course of my rounds (in an org of less than 50). Now if only I could get my people to adopt firefox........ They could join in the battle rather than being duped.
Madre de Dios! Es El Pollo Diablo! -- Captain Blondebeard
Speaking of 'slow', the IE version was so painfully slow that I uninstalled it after 2 days.
I'm not sure if the load was because it was 'new' and popular, or if they didn't anticipate the number of downloads, but having the toolbar active would cause a 2-3 second delay in loading EVERY site. Very annoying.
Hopefully they've found a way to fix that problem, either by fixing the code or adding hardware.
Video Phone Blogs send video messages straight to the web.
"If a person is too stupid to realize whether or not they're logging into THEIR bank or not, perhaps they don't deserve the privilege of online banking"
...)directed to their copy of the BOA website. (Identicle to the BOA website BTW)
The scam that is scary is the bank of america scam where a bunch of miscreants copied the BOA website and had anyone typing in varieties of bankofamerica.com (I think one of them was bankofanerica.com
I am sure even you occasionally mistypes, and if you were not paying attention, you would enter you password into the wrong site.
Of course, I don't use online banking, but for someone who does, I can't see how you could keep that from happening without being extremly careful.
A plugin like mentioned would be very useful in this regard.
Eventough the toolbar gives some additional features, the main function of seeing the site's "report" can be done in any browser with a mere javascript bookmarklet. This example bookmarklet was available since last January.
I researched and reported a phishing site on someone host and the owner of the domain actually thanked me. It was weird.
A result of all the nagging /.ers that read this post --> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/02/18 8202&tid=158&tid=172&tid=95
I was one of the probably hundreds of people that e-mailed asking for a Firefox extension.
Yeah, That would work until they went to Yahoo Games or some other site like that wich will popup and say You must have Internet Explorer 4.5 or better. Then I get a call to come fix their games.
Madre de Dios! Es El Pollo Diablo! -- Captain Blondebeard
Haven't we established that this doesnt work anyway? I could swear that was what the last story on this was. Something about how every phisher will just make several sites anyway, and the massive problems with false positves... It's only real purpose is the nice feeling you get from reporting it, like spam.
Well, I have a BOOKMARK to my bank, so I can just click on that and be safe.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
I'm so sick of entire damned toolbars. Why not just a nice little Tool Icon that displays a menu when clicked on? Something neat like the RSS bookmarks in Firefox?