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Friday, September 24, 2010

How to avoid becoming a victim of tabnapping

Let's take a closer look at this security threat, which was identified by none other than the Firefox creative lead Aza Raskin of Mozilla. He discovered that it's possible for someone to execute a phishing attack on a site that you've already visited, have already loaded on a tab in your browser client, already trust and have absolutely no reason to be suspicious of as a result.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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