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Phishing Exposed
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Phishing Exposed

by Lance James, Dave Jevans
November 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
450 pages
11h 24m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Phishing Exposed
Figure 5.20 The Question of Truth
If the victim selects Ye s , she does not get a lock at the bottom of the screen;
if she selects No, the tdwaterhouse frames that we constructed will be blank! This
causes a problem for us in two ways: It is not what the victim is used to seeing,
and if she clicks No, we lose.This dialog box is trouble for a phisher (again, we
are assuming that the user understands SSL pretty well) and lowers our chances
of receiving the maximum return on investment.The simple solution is obvious:
Our poisoned URL points to nonsecure items, so let’s point them to secure
ones. Our previous URL now becomes:
https://webbroker1.tdwaterhouse.com/research/wsod.asp?javascript:parent.fram ...
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ISBN: 9781597490306