[Cialug] Time to change your passwords.

kristau kristau at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 18:04:19 CDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> In case you hadn't heard, it looks like the big phishing attack that we
> thought only hit Hotmail also impacts Yahoo, AOL, and Gmail accounts
> (and likely others).

Isn't a phishing attach defined as an attempt to trick someone into
giving up their password by sending an e-mail with a crafted link? If
so, then always logging in to your gmail, hotmail, yahoo, et al
accounts by first typing the URL in the address bar should protect you
against such an attack.

Or is this a new type of phishing? If so, please share the details ;)

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Coding late into the night
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