19 March 2014

New Phishing Scam Uses Scarily Accurate Google Login Page



google-docs-phishing

You get a link to a Google Doc. You click it, then sign in to your Google account. Seems safe enough, right? Wrong, apparently. A sophisticated phishing setup is teaching the world yet another lesson about online security. What is phishing, and how do scammers use it? Basically, phishing means getting users to voluntarily type their username and password, often by using a false login page. Such pages are usually easy to spot for net-savvy users, but this recent example of phishing is noteworthy for how realistic the login page looked. It could have fooled just about anyone, and had...


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