{"id":74,"date":"2008-05-26T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-05-26T13:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T20:37:03","slug":"even-phishers-have-their-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Even Phishers Have Their Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=73\">gone phishing<\/a>, I discovered that the use of JavaScript puts one barrier up that phishers have to overcome to impersonate a legitimate site.  In a characteristically hilarious post, <a href=\"http:\/\/connectid.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/security-through-localization.html\">Paul Madsen points out that<\/a>, besides having to overcome active defenses like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxipper.com\/\">Sxipper<\/a> (&#8220;Down girl!&#8221;), phishers may also inadvertently present pages localized for <em><strong>their<\/strong><\/em> locale, rather than the victim&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Intrepid identity adventurer though Paul may be, this stopped him dead in his tracks:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"plain\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/images\/Deutsche_Blogger_login.png\" alt=\"Deutsche Blogger login\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, maybe Paul&#8217;s German was better than he thought, as the page was urging him to &#8220;Gehen Sie auf Nummer sicher!  Sch\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00bctzen Sie sich von Phishing und Identit\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a4tsdiebstahl.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;Go safe!  Protect yourself from phishing and identity theft.&#8221; :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While gone phishing, I discovered that the use of JavaScript puts one barrier up that phishers have to overcome to impersonate a legitimate site. In a characteristically hilarious post, Paul Madsen points out that, besides having to overcome active defenses like Sxipper (&#8220;Down girl!&#8221;), phishers may also inadvertently present pages localized for their locale, rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-openid","category-phishing-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}