{"id":2249,"date":"2005-02-08T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/08\/\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T11:39:44","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:39:44","slug":"2249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/2249\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BROWSER SECURITY ALERT!<br \/>Are you really visiting Ebay.com or paypal.com? Is your online banking safe?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/02\/07\/browsers_idn_spoofing\/\" rel=\"external\">security loophole<\/a> in <strong>Mozilla<\/strong>, <strong>Firefox<\/strong>, <strong>Konqueror<\/strong> and <strong>Opera <\/strong>browsers could be used to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar, SSL certificate and status bar. The vulnerability stems from a flawed IDN (International Domain Name) implementation within the browsers. Using IDN which support Unicode characters gives the scammers characters to use that resemble normal characters, so you wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can check if your browser is affected using <a href=\"http:\/\/secunia.com\/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing_test\" rel=\"external\">Secunia&#8217;s test<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patches will be available soon from your browser vendor. In the mean time:<br \/><strong>&#8211; Don&#8217;t follow links from untrusted sources (like emails).<br \/>&#8211; Manually type the URL in the address bar.<\/strong><br \/>You have been warned!<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/singlenesia.com\/\" rel=\"external\">JohnFen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSER SECURITY ALERT!Are you really visiting Ebay.com or paypal.com? Is your online banking safe? A security loophole in Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror and Opera browsers could be used to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar, SSL certificate and status bar. The vulnerability stems from a flawed IDN (International Domain Name) implementation within the browsers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}