Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, August 02 2005 @ 09:54 AM CST
Report from Yahoo[*1] indicates that eBay may have been vulnerable to a “phishing” attack which could redirect users’ private information to a (presumably hostile) third party. The punchline of the story:
The moral is not to click on links in e-mails just because they look genuine, a fairly disturbing conclusion as this is one of the main criteria people use. Netcraft’s toolbar, a Web browser plug-in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox, is designed to protect against phishing websites, not least by analyzing the sort of characters used in this attack.
Go out and read the story, and be careful–it’s a rough Internet out there.