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New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the another-week-a-new-vulnerability dept.

JimmyM writes "Secunia reports on a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. From the piece: 'This can be exploited to spoof the address bar in a browser window showing web content from a malicious web site.' According to several (german) media outlets this is already being exploited by phishing sites. Secunia has a test you can try to see if you are vulnerable."

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  1. Firefox's IE Tab is also vulnerable by UnseenEnigma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know several people who use firefox with the IE Tab extension to get the benifits of Firefox's tabbed browsing for an IE rendering engine(and Integrated Auth). This configuration is also vulnerable to this exploit