Re: The Phish that isn't Going Away

spamacyde wrote:
> I reported a phish containing the link
> http://www.qcywblysecurity-ep.info to Spamcop(unfortunately forgot to
> save Spamcop's link), Ebay and Paypal.

www.qcywblysecurity-ep.info  =  premium7.geo.yahoo7.akadns.net

That is a yahoo site.

> It's still live 12 hours
> later.

That isn't surprising.  Yahoo isn't particularly responsive about
squashing their customers, even the ones which are running illegal
operations.

> Could somebody tell me if there is a security risk visiting
> it?

If you visit websites insecurely, you are at risk.

> It offers up a cookie and I rejected  it.  How much damage could
> the cookie have done?

Cookies cannot do damage.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie   An
HTTP cookie, or a Web cookie, is a parcel of text sent by a server to a
web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it
accesses that server.

> Also has anybody had any luck getting Yahoo to
> cough up the identity of a phisher?

The identity?


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Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin