http://ajayshroff.com/22/what-is-phishing/ Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://ajayshroff.com/22/what-is-phishing/comment-page-1/#comment-57 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Technology Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:02:19 +0000 http://ajayshroff.com/?p=41#comment-57 [...] A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This is a step up from being directed to a fake website to log into eBay in the first place. So, if you get an email which has a link that takes you to eBay, delete that email. This latest effort makes it even more difficult for the users to detect a phishing attack as the user is being taken to a genuine page and then to the hacker’s website. What other ways will they find to rob us? [...] [...] A flaw on the eBay site has allowed hackers to redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site. This means that you could log in from a genuine eBay webpage and then be redirected to fake site which would ask for your information to confirm that you are the genuine account holder or whatever. This is a step up from being directed to a fake website to log into eBay in the first place. So, if you get an email which has a link that takes you to eBay, delete that email. This latest effort makes it even more difficult for the users to detect a phishing attack as the user is being taken to a genuine page and then to the hacker’s website. What other ways will they find to rob us? [...]

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