Re: A new type of phishing attack

"Mark S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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Awesome! That would get me.

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Mike Stay <[email protected]> wrote:

> There's a variant where the site pops open a new tab with the
> legitimate site in it, e.g. when opening gmail you click on what
> appears to be a mailto: link.  But the originating site gave the
> window a name and can therefore redirect the site after a time to a
> malicious one, particularly since the attacker can tell when you're
> looking at his site and not gmail.
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:
> > He would have gotten me, and SitePassword wouldn't have helped.  I
> haven't been using it for gmail, because until recently I could only get my
> passwords from IE.  Now that I have SitePassword, I'm going to change that.
> >
> > ________________________
> > Alan Karp
> > Principal Scientist
> > Enterprise Services, Office of the CTO
> > Hewlett-Packard Company
> > 1501 Page Mill Road
> > Palo Alto, CA 94304
> > (650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029
> > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp
> >
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    Cheers,
    --MarkM

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