Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories)

Tue Aug 17 13:21:11 UTC 2004

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
"David Lesher" <wb8foz at nrk.com> wrote:

| I wonder if the banks have ever considered how they have contributed
| to the problem. If their pages were straight up, no pop-up's, no
| JavaVirus, etc.... it would be far easier to tell their customers:
|
| ==============================================================
| Here is what our page looks like:
|
| The address ALWAYS starts with:	https;//www.countrybank.com/...
|
| With a page like this. [graphic image]
| If you have pop-ups, or a different page, stop...
|
| ==============================================================
|
| But of course, that would not be glitzy enough....

No matter how often they told customers that, a sufficient percentage
would ALWAYS be susceptible to the fraudsters' social engineering ...

That feature seems to be hard-coded into the class $customer

-- 
Richard Cox