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Damn. Both Firefox and Opera fell for that.
The nightly builds of Firefox have IDN support disabled by default.
If you want to stay with Firefox 1.0, a variety of extensions (e.g. spoofstick, adblock) have been updated to detect/block this exploit. There are also more complicated fixes involving proxy files available.
My address bar said "http://www.paypal.com," but it didn't display as a secure url (no little lock icon, and all real Paypal URLs start with https), so I'm not sure I see the real danger.
I wasn't sure what I was supposed to get - I got a page not found
it didn't display as a secure url (no little lock icon, and all real Paypal URLs start with https), so I'm not sure I see the real danger.
First off, I reckon there's a large enough %age of people who don't track lock icons/https for the scammers to make money, and secondly -- I wonder how difficult it would be to get a security certificate long enough to rob folks.
My address bar said "http://www.paypal.com," but it didn't display as a secure url (no little lock icon, and all real Paypal URLs start with https), so I'm not sure I see the real danger.
For people like me who would never notice such a thing?
But yeah, there's a simple fix for this. If you get an email or a phone call asking for any touchy information: SSN, password, account numbers, etc., just don't do it. Ever ever ever.
But yeah, there's a simple fix for this. If you get an email or a phone call asking for any touchy information: SSN, password, account numbers, etc., just don't do it. Ever ever ever.
pretty much. Like i got call from a "collection" agency asking about a hospital bill from a year ago that wanted my credit card or checking account information over the phone. Nuh and Uh.
Cingular called and asked me to pay over the phone with my credit card. Guy seemed startled when I told him, no, I'll go online and do it there instead.
I think he was perfectly legit, but damn -- why be startled?
We had the same experience. Cingular needs to get a clue.
Hee. Earthlink sent me email telling me I needed to update my credit card info. Of course they didn't ask for password info or anything like that, but still. I ignored it for quite a while, thinking it was a scam. Then one day I had gone straight to their page to do something else, and noticed that, indeed, the credit card they had was about to expire. Heh. So I guess my internal personal filter is set too aggressively.
Does anyone have dictionary software on their PDA?
Any recs?