Archive for December, 2006

Phriday Phishing

December 6, 2006 by Jose Nazario

I sure do post a lot about phishing here, don’t I? It’s because it’s such a fascinating subject, mixing the motives of the attacker, sometimes some code analysis (ie deconstructing their JavaScript), and victim analysis. I had a look at the recent data shared by Symantec in Phishers Take Summers and Weekends Off, Too and [...]

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Blacklist Attacks

December 6, 2006 by Jose Nazario

You know you’re doing something right when you get attacked. Shortly after their appearance, specifically their widespread appearance in browsers such as FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, anti-phishing toolbars have come under attack. The attacks are pretty much what you would expect: move quickly to defeat the utility of the information in those blacklists. [...]

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