Phishing flaw a danger to alternative browsers is interesting, to say the least. Internationalized domain names were introduced so we could have URLs in all languages - not just English. The modern browsers, especially gecko-based ones, like Netscape and Firefox support IDN already. Users of these browsers could be fooled into beleiving that www.pàypal.com is www.paypal.com, for example. It’s called a “homograph attack”.
The articles says :
Microsoft has not implemented support for IDN yet, so its IE browser is not vulnerable to the flaw.
Microsoft hasn’t implemented support for many standards, so that’s no surprise, really.
Paypal Account Security Measures Fraud
For all you PayPal users out there, there’s a new hoax to contend with!
It comes in the form of an e-mail, supposedly from PayPal, with the subject-line “PayPal Account Security Measures”. The contents of the mail are as follows,
Dear PayPal M…
Firefox is fixed…