[Cialug] Time to change your passwords.

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:04 PM, kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If
> so, then always logging in to your gmail, hotmail, yahoo, et al
> accounts by first typing the URL in the address bar should protect you
> against such an attack.

Maybe this theory is flawed, or only as secure as the browser vendor
(which if it isn't secure then what security do you have?), but
relying on the browser's username and password keeping feature could
help you avoid falling prey to a phishing attack.

If you have set ebay to remember your username and password and you
click a link for an interesting item and it doesn't remember your
username and password and you have to type it then alarm bells should
be going off.


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