{"id":77,"date":"2010-05-12T04:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-03-19T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T04:56:45","slug":"beware-tabnabbing-phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/05\/beware-tabnabbing-phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware Tabnabbing Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beware Tabnabbing, a New Type of Phishing Attack<br \/>\n<\/strong>Wow. The number of ways you can be fooled into giving up your private       logins through a web browser keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Engst at Tidbits.com <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/11314\" target=\"_blank\">describes<\/a> the       attack using your browser history (you do purge it often, right)?  See       a demo at <a href=\"http:\/\/startpanic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StartPanic.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2010\/05\/devious-new-phishing-tactic-targets-tabs\/\" target=\"_blank\">read          more<\/a> at Krebson Security.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson: keep your browser history clean, do not sign into any secure          site from a tab left open, and block as many 3rd-party ads as you can          with <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/1865\/\" target=\"_blank\">AdBlock<\/a> for          FireFox. And wait for Firefox to fix this <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=147777\" target=\"_blank\">bug <\/a>in accessing global history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware Tabnabbing, a New Type of Phishing Attack Wow. The number of ways you can be fooled into giving up your private logins through a web browser keeps growing. Adam Engst at Tidbits.com describes the attack using your browser history (you do purge it often, right)? See a demo at StartPanic.com and read more at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2010\/05\/beware-tabnabbing-phishing-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beware Tabnabbing Phishing Attacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}