New Credit Card Scam (fwd)

[Jason Holt]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Lance James wrote:
[...]
> place to fend off these attacks. Soon phishers will just use the site itself 
> to phish users, pushing away the dependency on tricking the user with a 
> "spoofed" or "mirrored" site.
[...]

You dismiss too much with your "just".  They already do attack plenty of 
sites, but they also phish because it has a larger return on investment. 
Security is the process of iteratively strengthening the weakest links in the 
chain.

 					-J

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