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Subject: [Leica] OT - Identity thieves' new ploy: `pharming' - "It's almost entirely out of the user's hands."
From: jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Thu Apr 7 20:11:29 2005
References: <4253F4F7.9090303@hemenway.com> <d3520a2f050406110714d8d53c@mail.gmail.com>
 
Anders:

Thanks for the information.

Jim


Anders Nygren wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2005 9:40 AM, Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com> wrote:
> 
>>This is OT but could be of importance to us all.
>>
>>I would like to know what the technically savvy among us think of this?
>>
>>How easy is it for the thieves to accomplish?
>>
>><http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11322977.htm>
>>
> 
> A good description of how this works can be found here
> http://isc.sans.org/presentations/dnspoisoning.php
> 
> As usual with internet security problems it seems like it is due
> to vulnerabilities in some Microsoft and Symantec products.
> 
> Anders
In reply to: Message from jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] OT - Identity thieves' new ploy: `pharming' - "It's almost entirely out of the user's hands.")
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