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Why Phishing Attacks Work |
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Source: Harvard and Berkeley - Posted by Eric Lubow
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When asked if a phishing site was legit or a spoof, 23% of users use only the content of the website to make the decision! The majority of users ignore the address and SSL indicators in the browser. Some users think that favicons and lock icons in HTML are more important indicators. The paper hints that the proposed IE7 security indicators and multi-colored address bar will also suffer a similar fate. This study is brought to you by the people who developed the security skins Firefox extension."
Read this full article at Harvard and Berkeley
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