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| Phish stick |
| 04.26.04 (6:48 am) [edit] |
Phil Libin from CoreStreet Software has released a beta version of Spoofstick, a browser plug-in that is intended to help alert you when you are directed to a website that is not who it claims to be.
Phishing is the technical term for an identity theft scam that involves directing users to a phony website that looks just like the original - eBay or Amazon, for example - in order to entice the user into entering password and credit card info. Some recently revealed bugs in Internet Explorer have made this trick pretty easy to pull off.
Spoofstick adds a bar to the top of your browser that shows in large text the name of the domain you are really browsing, making it (hopefully) easy to see when you are being phished.
Download Spoofstick here.
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