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Mozilla expert warns of tab napping
AN INSECURITY EXPERT on Mozilla's Firefox web browser team has warned about a form of phishing attack dubbed 'tab napping'.
Aza Raskin said that while traditional phishing relies on getting users to click through on a URL and reveal their user credentials it is now well known that only the terminally dim fall for it.
Tab napping works on the user's assumption that a tabbed web page stays the same when other Internet services are being accessed.
Raskin said that if a fake page 'updates' when the user isn't looking, when they return to the tab they will simply presume they left a web page open, and log in as normal.
Whenever you log into a website, regardless of whether or not you have tabs open in the browser, you should check the URL to make sure it is using a secure https:// address. "If the URL doesn't look right, or there's no padlock, close the tab, open a new one and enter the URL again," he said.
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I don't see why anyone wants their screen space reduced by the tab bar. And don't try to tell me you *need* dozens of tabs open when it's beyond human capacity to recall more than 8 or 9. -- But maybe you're not human; I try not to assume facts not in evidence. -- Anyhoo, since so far as known, this exploits only tabs not separate windows, again turns out that my inclinations keep me safe from future problems.
@Organthruster: does say it's a demonstration, so while your points are correct, there's no evidence of Apple types actually falling for it.
Well fuck me backwards with a donkey's dangler if the video in the linked article shows an APPLE user being duped! Didn't I read somewhere that Macs were super secure and comparatively immune to attacks from internet ne'er-do-wells?
Oh yeah, I did, every-fucking-where on the web, by moron fruit-lickers not capable of understanding that the likelihood of getting shafted by fraudsters is directly linked to the idiocy of the user and not to whatever operating system he/she happens to be using at the time.
Modern phishing techniques to which Apple users are just as vulnerable as Windows users are a far, far bigger threat to the black ink in your bank account than some half-assed fucking virus or worm. But keep buying those Macs and keeping thinking you're safe because we're having a great time laughing at you behind your back.
Perhaps it's more a play on "kid"napping than a typo.
napping = sleeping
nabbing ~= grabbing/taking over
so, since the article title says "napping", was the tab snoring loudly or what?
/lol@typo :p