First Was Phishing, Next Is Pharming

I was curious to know how many of You actually are using this

'Netcraft Toolbar' that is mentioned in ronjor's article ?

 

Hi,

This kind of fraud is more and more frequent in Europe.
Never give any confidential information is the best prevention.

*** others articles with interesting links (Spoofstick...):

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117790,00.asp

http://www.thestandard.com/internetnews/000529.php

***Online service (for ones who don't like toolbars):

http://www.trustwatch.com/

***A special soft against phishing: PhishGuard:

http://www.phishguard.com/

It seems that The web is full of "pirhanas"...

Regards

 

First of all, Thank's alot Kareldjag1 for the links !
Of course you should be careful about giving out personal infos.
Sometimes though, it seems a bit hard to do, especially when one wants to
do online transactions. You cannot buy something for example, or perhaps sign up for an Internet service provider, etc, etc...without giving anything
out.
I personally don't do online banking ....but have bought
a couple of times software on the net. Soo, what is there to do ?
Being careful ! But is this really enough ?!
It's a nice thought that some tools are available that may help prevent 'accidential' disclosures to the ones it's not meant to be....

P.S. I'm still waiting on opinions about the particular "netcraft toolbar"

This is from a poster on "Talkback" on eWeek.
He's right. And when I look in my status bar, with the 'Privacy Report',
I have to confirm there are a few "nasties" lurking.....
Not very nice!

 

Hmmmm, very interesting indeed. Wouldn't a simple but effective way of defeating these guys be to keep the url of important financial institutions in your host file, that way you would never need to use DNS?

Acadia

 

Me? I wouldn't know the least about how to to do with host file I'm afraid...

 

Nat....let's Please confine the discussion to the article....and consider starting your own thread concerning "netcraft toolbar" in our software & services forum....or you could ask that same question in this fairly recent thread.

TIA,
Bubba

 

Oh,... sorry Bubba. I thought it would be ok to do here, as this was mentioned in the articel.

I will start a new thread, or see into the other one.


Edit: I didn't even know a thread about it already existed. Thank's for giving me the link !

 

Hi,

Web apllication attacks are difficult to prevent for a home user.
There's solutions for sohos and small business but often a little bit expensive:

Like Easy-Guard: http://www.easy-guard.com

We could also use an IPS like Prevx, a mobile code filter like SurfinGuard, a powerfull Firewall application, a monotoring files (for the browser) and so on...

There's also solutions to buy online without giving your card's number:the E-payment:it's just a number available only for one payment.

Even if there's many vulnerabilities (like XSS) on some sites:

http://www.securitytracker.com/startup/index.html

For a payment, it's sometimes better to enable and accept cookies only for this payment (to prevent their theft).
After, a complete cleaning (cookies, temp file etc) is also a good prevention.

Regards

 

Disputing claim:

http://news.com.com/E-mail meltdown claims take heat/2100-7349_3-5563617.html?tag=nefd.top

Acadia