Jason Holt wrote:


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Lance James wrote:
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place to fend off these attacks. Soon phishers will just use the site itself to phish users, pushing away the dependency on tricking the user with a "spoofed" or "mirrored" site.

[...]

You dismiss too much with your "just". They already do attack plenty of sites, but they also phish because it has a larger return on investment. Security is the process of iteratively strengthening the weakest links in the chain.

I'm being misunderstood - Cross-User attack concepts specifically is what I'm referring to. The straight on attacks on sites are definitely a processed phase within the many attack vectors they are performing, I'm just making clear that the businesses need to start working on those weak links.

-Lance


                    -J




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