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February 08, 2005
Security Flaw in Web Browsers Open Danger to Phishing Scams
Microsoft's Internet Explorer has long been criticized as having many flaws that allow hackers to exploit and take over victim's computers. Now, other browers are vulnerable to attack and, oddly enough, Microsoft's IE is non vulnerable to the newest method of attack, which exploits browers that allow International Domain Names (IDN). IDN domains allow special characters within the domain name.
For more information, check out this security alert from Security Labs:
http://www.websensesecuritylabs.com/alerts/alert.php?AlertID=128
Posted by savsb at February 8, 2005 09:41 PM