Posted: 3/4/2008 4:50:42 AM EDT
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"Over concerns for lack of an anti-phishing mechanism for Safari, Paypal is telling its Mac users to use another browser. An author from Ars Technica reveals that he has been using Camino and has fallen victim to a Paypal related phishing scam via e-mail so this story must hit home for him. 'Currently the Apple browser does not alert users to sites that could be phishing for your info, and it lacks support for Extended Validation. PayPal is, of course, a popular site among phishers in their neverending search for personal information, user IDs, and passwords. While it's not entirely fair singling out Safari (other Mac browsers like Camino also lack this support), it is perhaps at least a helpful reminder of the threat.'" link |
+1 If you give out your personal info over the net because an email asks you to, you don't deserve a mac, PC, house, car or anything else but a nice padded room and a daily regiment of thorazine and finger paints. |
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Classics I have heard- "I have an email from BankAmerica, asking for my account information." "Do you have an account with them?" "No, but it looks legit." And- "I just won the Irish lottery! They just need my bank info to send me the check!" "This was an email, right? Ask yourself this."When did I enter the Irish Lottery" and "If I did not enter it, how could I win it"?" |
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i use IE6 and i've never been phished my dad uses IE7 with "ANTI-PHISHING TECHNOLOGYZ" and he had his yahoo account compromised which in turn compromised his amazon account... if you are dumb enough in 2008 to fall for "TRICKY WEBSITES" like www.paypal.com.d or www.ebay.z or some other bullshit your computer should be smashed |
Apparently, it is now. A lot of the people who's systems I've essentially done autopsies on almost to the last, moan, "but I had norton why didn't it catch that!?". By the time I saw them, that "norton" was as in-date as a bucket of four year old milk. |