{"id":29,"date":"2006-10-24T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T19:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-10-24T20:14:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T19:14:30","slug":"phishing-part-2-firefox-gets-there-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/29-phishing-part-2-firefox-gets-there-first.html","title":{"rendered":"Phishing part 2: Firefox gets there first"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s three hours since I reported a phishing site<\/a> to both IE7 and Firefox (Google). I revisited the site in both browsers. At first, Firefox displayed the site as before; but then I switched it to query Google dynamically. Presto! this appeared:<\/p>\n

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Note that the dynamic query setting is not<\/strong> the default, presumably because of its privacy implications. However, it is clearly more effective than the default downloaded list.<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, IE7 is still saying “this is not a reported phishing site”; even though I reported it several hours ago.<\/p>\n

This research is not bullet-proof. For all I know, someone else reported the site yesterday. Still, it’s an indication.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still not clear why these browsers can\u2019t figure out that this looks like a banking site, it\u2019s asking for a password, but it\u2019s not an SSL connection – perhaps we should alert the user. That doesn\u2019t strike me as particularly advanced analysis.<\/p>\n

See here<\/a> for an update.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: firefox<\/a>, ie7<\/a>, internet explorer 7<\/a>, phishing<\/a>, security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s three hours since I reported a phishing site to both IE7 and Firefox (Google). I revisited the site in both browsers. At first, Firefox displayed the site as before; but then I switched it to query Google dynamically. Presto! this appeared: Note that the dynamic query setting is not the default, presumably because of … Continue reading Phishing part 2: Firefox gets there first<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}