Travel Technology - Pop-Up Program Snatches Banking Passwords




cordelli
Jun 30, 04, 2:07 pm
From
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1618458,00.asp?kc=ewnws063004dtx1k0000599


Pop-Up Program Snatches Banking Passwords
By Dennis Fisher
June 29, 2004

Customers who use a number of the top online banking sites are at risk of falling prey to a new Web-based attack that snatches user IDs and passwords for these sites.

Among the sites targeted by the attack are some owned by Citibank, Deutsche Bank and Barclays Bank.

The attack is rather complex and appears to use a known flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) to drop a Trojan horse program on vulnerable machines.

Click the link for the rest of the story.


ScottC
Jun 30, 04, 2:49 pm
Another reason to use Mozilla :)

Efrem
Jun 30, 04, 4:33 pm
Not only do you have to use IE, but you also have to use it under Windows. (The linked article does not bother to point this out.) The technique this attack uses does not affect Macs, even if they use the IE browser.




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