ok mr. moderator...
i think the real problem to phishing exists is the weak process of login systems
today...
anyone just needs a login and password, to be authenticated, i think web
aplications needs to change login systems... to be more tight... and the
phishers maybe loose there hope to grep information very easy with just a
username and password...
my idea and solution to a new login system is this...
creating a 3rd field, this 3rd field the user will choose... it will work like
saying yes this is the real bank system welcome back mr. user insert your
password...
the process...
1rst page
user -> puts the username...
second page..
3rd field -> what is your cat name? now the user knows that this was the
question that he have put int the 3rdfield from the real bank site (he can put
what he want)...
password ?? -> user puts the password.. he is athenticated.
now the phishers they have more work, needs two process to gain access to the
bank user account...
first they need to colect the username to get the 3rd field... and they need to
put the 3rdfield in the false website... to get the password... but this is the
deal...
when a user or anyone, puts the username in this login system needs to proceed
with a password, if not, if the user close the browser, if he tries 3times and
can't login, the system will block the username and send a email to the real
user, a code to unblock the username and force the user to change the username
and 3rd field... and now the phishers don't know again what will be the new
username and 3rdfield...
this system, is nothing from other planet and i think that help a lot the users,
and will stop a litle or a big % this phisher mans...
regards
Nuno Costa
-----Original Message-----
From: Krul Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Krul@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca]
Sent: April 27, 2005 10:31 AM
To: 'Alex'; incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks
I received a phishing scam email for RBC Bank literally moments ago.
The
Web site is based in the Czech Republic with very little in the way
to
disguise the address of the site. (At last check, the site was still
up
at:
http://updatestatus.webz.cz/rbc/cgi-bin/rbaccess/login.html)
Odd, either there are some newbie phishers out there, or they are
starting to realise that no matter how much they disguise their sites
someone will be having them shut down soon enough so catching the
uninformed in the few moments they have is paramount. Will we be
seeing
an increase in the diversity of referring addresses in a flooding
attempt to catch the last remaining moms and pops who don't know
better
versus well-crafted addresses that don't arouse suspicions?
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex [mailto:incidents@alex.gotdns.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:51 PM
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Discovering and Stopping Phishing/Scam Attacks
I agree that checking by referer addresses is a powerful way to
detect
phishing sites, but such logs can easily be adverted?
Doesn't some anti-popup software remove referer fields?
Simple use of javascript can allow a page to fetch anything without
showing
up in referer logs.
While we are on the subject, has anyone come across commercial and/or
government websites being (illegally?) mirrored?
For example, I recently came a website located on a (Asian?) hosting
provider where the content of the website was EXACTLY that of a
well-known
US govt website. (It appeared that they ran the equivalent of a
recursive
"wget" on the real site and hosted the files). It appeared to be
several
layers deep.
Why would anyone want to do that?
-Alex
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