[Cialug] Time to change your passwords.

[Lathrop Preston]

Good point on this one. Granted you do have to trust the browser...

while this overall issue may be a problem for the general public I
suspect most of us here wouldn't fall for things like the typo'd
addresses... but I could be wrong

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> 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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