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#1 2017-04-19 05:27:36

colak
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Browser Exploit Allows Phishing Attacks


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#2 2017-04-19 06:58:21

makss
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Re: Browser Exploit Allows Phishing Attacks

More precise description: Phishing Backdoor from official browser developers.
Somehow I can not believe that this was just plain stupid. Really nobody guessed in the browser to put the indicator of a unicode?
This method of character substitution has been known since the days of DOS

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aks_cron : Cron inside Textpattern | aks_article : extended article_custom tag
aks_cache : cache for TxP | aks_dragdrop : Drag&Drop categories (article, link, image, file)

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#3 2017-04-19 08:30:25

etc
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Re: Browser Exploit Allows Phishing Attacks

Mozilla explains their choice here, you can agree or disagree.

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#4 2017-04-19 11:54:06

colak
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Re: Browser Exploit Allows Phishing Attacks

makss wrote #305385:

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That one escaped my radar!!!


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