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Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware
Emb3rz writes "DarkReading.com brings us news of a new approach to phishing that targets online banking sites. Here's the novel part of it: it doesn't involve any of the typical attack vectors we all know and love. Instead, it uses JavaScript from a remote page to detect if you have a banking site open, and prompts you for info via popup if you do."
Of course we would then have to send someone to Elbonia to disappear the disappearers.
In fact we could lay traps for them by disappearing people in a country where that is illegal and then see who comes after them.
Elbonia uses trenches as we cannot afford your extravagant tubes.
4. Find out that the phisers are using a proxy to bounce off of.
5. Find that proxy is some poor schmuck who got hacked.
6. Realize poor schmuck is you.
7. Boom.
There's a simple technical solution to this:
1. trace the phishing to their location
2. send a missile to that location
3. problem solved
I don't get it. Then the bad guys would have a missile. That is worse, not better.
because most bank robbery's do not occur in tooling shops.
dieing indeed....
the significance of a signature is insignificant
My paranoia has led me into a practice of doing my banking by going to the bank.
You insensitive clod. How do you get there - in your gasoline powered, carbon-emitting, smog-making car? /.er would stay in his basement and do his banking on the internet and not risk having to interact with other humans.......
A real
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