> Thanks, hundreds of people are, but what does that have to do with > Linux????????
For your benefit: I was running my Gentoo Linux laptop this AM (gotta fix that framebuffer problem) when I notice in Evolution (a Ximian/Novell/whateverrr project), that netbank were sending a security advisory. Netbank is as you know, written in Java and runs on a bunch of Solaris boxes (sorry not relevant to Linux!). Anyways, thanks to the ability to copy link location, I fired up firefox and pasted the 'click' link into the browser. Lo and hold, http://ns.hubi.or.kr:443/ came up. Hmm.. I said to myself, thats an odd place for netbank to be receiving security advisories. I wonder if they run Linux? Where is that copy of Nessus, time to find out.... Better? I am part of the slug community. I did not want someone from that community to be a victim by this attack. (Unlikely though that it might seem, not everyone on this list is guru status.) Unlike viruses which are not successful in attacking Linux users, phishing attacks can actually hurt financially. Therefore, as a member of said community (slug), I decided to advise other community members to beware of this new attack especially as it is the first one I've seen that relates to a major Australian bank (perhaps I'm wrong there. If so I stand corrected.). This email is not unlike other community-based informative emails on the SLUG list relating to attacks of various sorts and how to cope with them. There is extensive discussion on such and I would have thought that my email was a fairly inoffensive addition to that Kbase. Stuart Guthrie >> Someone is phishing... > > Thanks, hundreds of people are, but what does that have to do with > Linux???????? > > I think everyone would appreciate if you could send your junk mail to > slug-chat. > > Thanks. > >> >> FYI: I got an email proporting to be from Netbank today. >> Wanting me to re-enter my details. Looked all official etc. >> >> The click link was to http://ns.hubi.or.kr:443/ >> >> Which I guess is not an official Commbank/Netbank site. >> >> This is the first time I've seen a commbank one. >> >> First of many probably. >> >> ATB >> >> >> Stu >> >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - >> http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: >> http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> >> > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
