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| Subject: | Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide" |
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| Date: | Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:39:02 -0700 |
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
Gunter Ollmann (NGS) wrote:While the Phishers develop evermore sophisticated attack vectors [...] Customers too have become wary of "official" email, and organisations struggle to install confidence in their communications.Sometimes it's unbelivable how long it takes organizations to discover that email can be signed. Especially nowdays when all major mail readers have support for at least S/MIME
How does that help in practice? A user fooled by a link to ebay-support.com is just as likely to accept signed mail from foo@ebay-support.com. Not to mention that the potential profits from phishing could easily finance the purchase of a forged cert if someone at one of the built-in CA's was corruptible. Given the several that are based in 3rd world companies (not to mention recent US corporate scandals) I have no confidence that won't eventually happen. -Dan Veditz
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