Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox Available 170
miller60 writes "Netcraft has just released the Firefox version of its anti-phishing toolbar, which blocks known phishing sites and suspicious urls, and displays the hosting information and risk rating for visited sites. Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites since the IE version was released in late December."
Netcraft confirms.... (Score:5, Funny)
Netcraft confirms that IE users will install spyware to combat phishing.
Re:Netcraft confirms.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Not necessarily, it isn't just geeks that use Firefox any more - I for one (and I'm sure many other
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If you're going to insult IE users, the least you could do is read the damned article caption. Jeez.
Re:Netcraft confirms.... (Score:1)
Netcraft was not available for comment.
Toolbar is a big privacy hole (Score:2)
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sweet! (Score:2)
I'm sure the phishers are working on a new, "improved" version even as we speak ...
Kudos Netcraft (Score:4, Insightful)
That aside; if it takes a company like Netcraft almost 6 months to come out with a Linux version, to me that's being slow to act. Thanx never-the-less to Netcraft.
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I'm not sure if the load was because it was 'new' and popular, or if they didn't anticipate the number of downloads, but having the toolbar active would cause a 2-3 second delay in loading EVERY site. Very annoying.
Hopefully they've found a way to fix that problem, either by fixing the code or adding hardware.
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When the unicode mapping exploit became known to me, I played around with the SpoofStick extension to Firefox, which mapped the unicode into punycode to make the phishing attempt more apparent. It worked as advertised, but aside from being unbelievably ugly, SpoofStick required creation of yet another toolbar. I use a laptop, so vertical screen space is at a premium. No more toolbars!!
Fortunately, updated Firefox config opti
why are they using a toolbar (Score:3, Insightful)
instead i suggest that they have a small icon on the lower right corner as suggested before. when the user is trying to access a known phishing site, either pop up a error box asking if user would like to continue, or redirect them to warning page. to submit phising site
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There are enough security tools available... (Score:1, Insightful)
A vegetarian diet is tastier and better for you than what most people eat, but it requires consciousness that there is a problem with the status quo and a dedication to change it. Similar
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:4, Funny)
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A vegetarian diet is tastier and better for you than what most people eat
Your point is well taken, but the "tastiness" of a vegetarian diet is very much a personal preference and the healthiness is a matter of your metabolism. A full 8% of the human race will slowly die without meat in their diet due to the lack of certain enzymes. As an aside, have you ever noticed how vegetarian meals often are imitations of meat or dairy products? I've seen vegetarian cheeseburgers and thought, "man, just buy the re
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2, Funny)
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Vegetarian is definitely not better for me.
My sister also happens to be the kind of person who needs this kind of protection for her computer, so I hope no one is trying to draw any parallels with that.
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You're making the assumption that the food is western-vegetarian. Someone could be eating Asian food, which isn't don't really contain imitations of dairy or meat products.
Err, no. I was making an observation about vegetarian meals I see. You know a lot of asian food is fish which (unless you are catholic) is meat.
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
Depends on the part of Asia. India does a lot of vegetarian stuff. Falaffel, samosas, various curries.
English doesn't have a word for meat that isn't fish. It makes some foriegn diets sound like washed out vegetarian clones, but really they're only "vegetarian" because the English language doesn't have a better word for it.
Not that I'm vegetarian... not that there's anything wrong with that.
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
The logic isn't that difficult.
There's no word for a diet which discludes all meat except fish, so people loosely label themselves "vegetarian"
When somebody describes such a diet as "vegetarian", and pops a chunk of trout in their mouth, people say "You're vegetarian, but you eat fish?"
And other people promptly say "...then you're not vegetarian"
E.g. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150589&cid=126 27905 [slashdot.org]
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
Surprisingly, we are quite strict about how we define vegetarian, as well (for instance, folks in the US mysteriously add eggs and mushrooms under vegetarian items -- duh!!!).
And all the food I'd had was quite tasty, well flavoured and spicy, thank you very much. The meat-imitations that you'd mentioned are for the benefit of meat eaters converting to ve
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
I was vegetarian for a two years and it helped me loose 40lbs. If you like it go for it.
Back on subject. Get a list of these Phishing sites? I would love to block them at my gat
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
I think vegetarian is defined as someone who eats plants and plant products - if you are going to be eating eggs and milk, you could be an ovo-lacto-vegetarian (that's the convention that's followed in a lot of places in Asia).
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Why not?
If the eggs and milk are free-range (i.e. the animals are treated well, are allowed to roam around and are not force-fed or fed inappropriately) then many would disagree with you.
I am a non-meat eater (to avoid misinterpretation of the word "vegetarian") for reasons of personal ethics, and while I know I'm not perfect I think distinguishing between products of pain/death and products of
Re:There are enough security tools available... (Score:2)
More of an issue for milk than eggs to be sure but since most animals seem to have close to a 50/50 gender split for every laying hen born there is a rooster and for every milk cow there is a bull.
I do eat a limited amount of meat so I do not have a big problem with this and I am not trying to make you feel bad but you asked.
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They are fungi, not plants. Vegetarian -- someone who eats vegetables, not fungi.
Vegetarians: The Other White Meat! (Score:4, Funny)
I'd say with vast array of available animal protein out there (Bison, Ostrich, Gator, Cow, Pig, a huge variety of Fish (Cod, Halibut, Trout, Herring, Sardine, Mackerel, Talapia, Swordfish, Marlin, Tuna, Salmon, etc), other Aquatic life (Shrimp, Scallops, Lobster, Crab, Oysters, Octopus, etc), and various birds (Turkey, Chicken, Duck, Goose, Pheasant, Quail, etc)), there is little doubt that with proper preparation, you can have a vast variety of flavours. Yes, you can also have a vast variety of vegetable flavours (if they are prepared right), but if you think Vegetarian is tastier, it is either a personal preference or a very limited exposure to the range of animal-related meal items. Being an omnivore and fairly well travelled food-wise, I've sampled great vegetarian and carnivore dishes and couldn't imagine trying to say which was 'tastier'.
As for healthy, vegetarian diets have some shortcomings. I've actually had one friend who was a Vegan ordered by her doctor to start eating meat again despite her best efforts to procure all the required nutrients and vital vitamins elsewhere. If I recall, one of the B complex vitamins was fairly hard to come by sufficiently without eating meat, despite various supplementations during any given year.
Keep in mind as well that herbivores rule few food chains. Why? Because when worst comes to worst, an omnivore can eat plants *and* animals. A vegetarian that is rigidly so can only eat one out of two. The ominvores natural advantage is he can actually eat the vegetarians. Generally, the omnivore also recieves the benefit of concentration of food value up the food chain that predators do - the lower creatures in the chain (often herbivores) do a lot of the work concentrating food value and the predator reaps the reward.
Or put another way, when you look at a salad, you don't see food, you see what food eats.
We can all only make our own choices, but my ancestors worked for many millions of years to get to the top of the food chain, and that involved eating meat. I'm not about to dishonour that huge amount of effort and sacrifice
To each his own, just keep in mind that when the end comes, one camp will be walking rations for the other....
Re:Vegetarians: The Other White Meat! (Score:2)
I never thought of that! I wonder how they taste?
Re:Vegetarians: The Other White Meat! (Score:2)
And humans (as I understand) aren't terribly nutritious from the point of view of a good diet (not to mention the awkward social ramifications of cannibalism).
OTOH, your conclusion about excessive meat consumption I find much more dubious. I think
Petname toolbar (Score:5, Informative)
When you visit your bank site for the first time, you enter your own chosen "pet name" for the bank, which is like a nickname. Then when you (supposedly) visit the bank again via clicking on a link, it will show you the same pet name if it is the same site. If it is a phishing site you will see a glaring indication that the site is new and not one you have previously visited and trusted. This way you will know when you are at the site that you should be at.
It is a simple concept and doesn't rely on any humongous database created by external users. For Firefox, available today!
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The scam that is scary is the bank of america scam where a bunch of miscreants copied the BOA website and had anyone typing in varieties of bankofamerica.com (I think one of them was bankofanerica.com
I am sure even you occasionally mistypes, and if you were not paying attent
Re:Petname toolbar (Score:3, Interesting)
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If the DNS server gets comprimised, then EVERYONE goes to the wrong page, unless you type in the IP address like this: 125.001.001.
And guess what, there are DAILY attempts to comprimise the DNS servers. Do you want to bet that none of them are from phishers?
Maybe we are lucky and they are just crackers looking to switch the Buckingham Palace's home page with Sein Finn.
Re:Petname toolbar (Score:2)
Very few criminal organizations could pull that off.
Heck, the only people who could pull that off are NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. And if they are after you, you are in a world of hurt anyway.
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Ignoring it on your bank's site is quite another. Even if it is just a misconfig, that speaks very poorly of their competence and hence security.
SSL warning on connecting to my bank means I don't login - I call the Online Banking or security department.
A big hospital here in Vegas just got hacked. No one is safe.
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DNS spoofing
Spyware host file poisoning.
Spyware taking over your entire browser, pointing you to sites you don't want.
IE bug where what you see in address bar is not the site you're on.
Phishing is a comlicated problem with multiple vectors. Saying that a user that doesn't know all vectors at every given time is stupid is unwarranted.
In the spirit of the Nietzche/God quote... (Score:5, Funny)
-Netcraft
Netcraft is Slashdotted
-Death
(Stupid filters can't handle a well formatted joke...)
Mozilla on FreeBSD confirms (Score:4, Funny)
Wouldn't it be ironic... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wouldn't it be ironic... (Score:1)
Now if only I could get my people to use firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
Now if only I could get my people to use Firefox (Score:3, Insightful)
1. Remove the IE shortcut from the desktop
2. Add a Firefox shortcut to the desktop
3. Rename said shortcut "Internet Explorer"
4. Change icon of said shortcut to the blue "E"
5. Download and install a Firefox theme which emulates the look and feel of IE.
And there you have it! You have adapted the malicious tactics of Phishers to keep your people safe from Phishers.
Re:Now if only I could get my people to use Firefo (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Now if only I could get my people to use Firefo (Score:4, Funny)
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how well does this actually work (Score:5, Insightful)
but "Toolbar users have submitted more than 5,600 phishing sites"
aren't these phishing sites usually up for only a short time, like a couple days, before they get shut down? I would think that most the sites on the 'bad list' would be shut down by the time a user gets around to updating thier 'bad list' for their toolbar.
just a guess.
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First Impressions (Score:5, Informative)
The anti-phishing feature ID'd just about every site I visited as a threat. In some cases it might be looking at images hosted on a different host, but I think it was choking on xhtml namespaces as well. I need to reinstall it too figure this out.
I seems to add about 10-15 seconds to Firefox's start up time. I observed the same issue with the IE version. This was enough to uninstall the toolbar from both browsers.
I value Netcraft's services, but I think I'll go directly to their site instead.
Re:First Impressions (Score:1)
Anyway...
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What the toolbar thinks of Slashdot... (Score:2)
"The page you are trying to visit is using Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This is a technique commonly used in phishing attacks."
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"If this is a mistake, please report it using the "Report Incorrect Blocked URL" in the Netcraft Menu."
Of course, now it's starting to look like the reporting site is becoming /.ed, so of course that fails...
Netcraft toolbar function via javascript bookmark (Score:3, Interesting)
It breaks tabbed browsing. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It breaks tabbed browsing. (Score:3, Insightful)
This looks like.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Needed? (Score:3, Interesting)
buggy as hell ... every page i go to phishes! (Score:2)
hmm... i think i just reported myself as a phisher by following my own link...
toolbar site overload - every page is a phisher (Score:2)
So I sent in a bug report at the same time as the parent post and got a response just now:
Fix the problem... (Score:2)
BSD confirms Netcraft is dead (Score:2)
well, at least toolbar.netcraft.com is
Alternate solution: (Score:3, Insightful)
Press "h" on the keyboard to see the raw html of html email, including all the headers.
It is very easy to spot fake emails once pine strips off all the glitzy fluff, and you look at the header of any emails that pass initial inspection.
Functionality is buried in Advertising (Score:1)
EarthLink's Toolbar has done this for a year+ (Score:2)
http://www.earthlink.net/software/free/toolbar/ [earthlink.net]
Firefox?? (Score:2)
Why not just Tool Icons? (Score:3, Interesting)
What to do when you're bored? Fish the phishers! (Score:4, Funny)
I have a guilty pleasure, and I want to share it with everyone here. ;)
I look forward to receiving a phishing email. In the past I would just delete the message, but no more! I always visit their web site and give all the information I can (all the info. I can make up that is!) I try my best the make the info look legit; the credit card, bank routing numbers, name, and address, everything!
What better way to bring attention to these crooks than to have them try to access fraudulent accounts? I guess they may have a way to filter out the bogus info, but I have fun making their work more difficult. ;)
Lately, I noticed that the phishers web pages contain some javascript code to checksum the credit card numbers. This was a downer, until I d/l'ed a CC number generator! Oh, now my fun could continue. I hope that more people will take up my pastime.
Re:What to do when you're bored? Fish the phishers (Score:2)
Re:What to do when you're bored? Fish the phishers (Score:3, Insightful)
yeah that is until you unintentionally enter a real account number and someone somewhere is the victim... perhaps one of those people out there that you wanted to help you in your quest generates your CC or bank account number an end up with no money in your account or a maxed out CC.... moron!
I guess you don't know much about bank accounts or credit cards. What I'm doing is very safe. The likelihood of submitting a valid credit card number, expiration date, and verification number is very small. Espe
A real anti-phishing, anti-spoofing toolbar (Score:2)
Re:Spoofstick (Score:1)
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