Fresh phish

  • Authors:
  • D. Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The author talks on how a recently discovered flaw in the Internet's Domain Name System makes it easy for scammers to lure you to fake Web sites. It turns out to be easy for a malicious computer hacker to trick your browser into steering you anywhere he wants and then to pilfer sensitive information, like your user name, password, and credit card number.