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Fake login scripting attacks IE 7, Mozilla Firefox 2

by Mary Ford on November 22nd, 2006

Both Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2.0 include anti-phishing safeguards, a method of preventing fake sites from masquerading as the real ones in your browser. Too bad they haven’t yet patched a scripting vulnerability that allows hackers to do pretty much the same thing in malware web pages: steal passwords and logins by faking logins.[news ZDNet.com] The only way a hacker can take advantage of this flaw is to craft a fake login on a web page hosted on a trusted site. Expect patches soon.

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