Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/06

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Subject: [Leica] OT - Identity thieves' new ploy: `pharming' - "It's almost entirely out of the user's hands."
From: anders.nygren at gmail.com (Anders Nygren)
Date: Wed Apr 6 11:07:29 2005
References: <4253F4F7.9090303@hemenway.com>
 
On Apr 6, 2005 9:40 AM, Jim Hemenway <jim@hemenway.com> wrote:
> This is OT but could be of importance to us all.
> 
> I would like to know what the technically savvy among us think of this?
> 
> How easy is it for the thieves to accomplish?
> 
> <http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11322977.htm>
> 

A good description of how this works can be found here
http://isc.sans.org/presentations/dnspoisoning.php

As usual with internet security problems it seems like it is due
to vulnerabilities in some Microsoft and Symantec products.

Anders
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