Posted by Brad McCarty
May 25th, 2010
Those hackers, they're just getting
smarter all the time. Aza
Raskin, the creative lead for Firefox, gives us the latest version
of "trickier than you".
Have you ever had a few tabs open in your Firefox, went away for a
bit and then forgotten what you were looking at in the first place? This is exactly what Raskin is showing as a target scenario.
Let's say you're browsing a few channels here on TNW, and you look up to realize that a
tab is open to your Gmail. So, of course you're going to click the tab
and login, then be taken directly to your gmail account. No harm done,
eh?
Right. Except that you just gave your login information to a
phisher.
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