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Re:Half of All Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock by eli on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:15PM (#18554665)
Relying on users manually confirming that the domain is correct has never been a good strategy. The user is supposed to tell microsoft.com from micros0ft.com from microsoft.co from microsoft-corp.com?
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Re:Half of All Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock by todopoderoso on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:20PM (#18554710)
I recently saw a MacKeeper landing page url: "www.apple.com-spamsite.info/landing"

It was truncated in the url-bar enough to look like "www.apple.com".

The landing page, of course, was a clone of the apple.com website with a "Scan Computer" button that did the ol trick of showing you some animations before suggesting you use MacKeeper to clean up 17 viruses.

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Re:Half of All Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock by sitkack on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:44PM (#18566491)
That is modern art!
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