Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories)
Eric Kuhnke
eric at fnordsystems.com
Tue Aug 17 12:58:35 UTC 2004
>>The mail originated from 68.77.56.130 (an ameritech.net DSL connection,
>>right now not pingable) and loads some images from www.citibank.com.
>>It links to http://61.128.198.51/Confirm/ - an IP address hosted by
>>Chinanet (transit to there supplied by Savvis from my point of view).
It's a 1 line rule with mod_rewrite and apache to block
nonexistant or off-site http referers attempting to display
GIF/JPG/PNG images... Sometimes I wonder why Citibank,
Paypal and others don't do this. It would cut down on the
displayed authenticity level of many basic phishes.
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