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Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? 362

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @08:54AM from the well-that's-not-very-nice dept.

scamdetect pointed us to an interesting bit of news about a new security risk called tabnapping that was recently outlined by Aza Raskin. The short story is that background tabs are updated with login forms impersonating the sites they originally contained, but hosted by helpful third parties primarily interested in your password. (CT:Original writeup removed at request of submitter)

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Re:We need death squads (Score:3, Funny)

by PhongUK ( 1301747 ) writes: on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @09:02AM (#32334798)

How do we identify them?

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Re:We need death squads (Score:2, Funny)

by AndrewBC ( 1675992 ) writes: on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @09:44AM (#32335312) Homepage

New plan: steal my own identity sloppily under the guise of your identity which I stole perfectly. Now polish my boots!

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Re:A little peeved! (Score:3, Funny)

by satoshi1 ( 794000 ) writes: <satoshi.sugardeath@net> on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:46AM (#32336998) Homepage Journal

Because you're being a selfish prick.

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Re:A little peeved! (Score:3, Funny)

by scamdetect ( 1731728 ) writes: on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @11:55AM (#32337136) Homepage

Because you're being a selfish prick.
I truly value your input. Thank you.

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