Word January 2017 Verification And You

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I would like to note that there is some discussion that indicates even two factor authentication may not protect against this attack.

Earlier this month they released Chrome 56.0.2924 which changes the location bar behavior.

If you now view a data URL, the location bar shows a Not Secure message which should help users realize that they should not trust forms presented to them via a data URL.

There is a highly effective phishing technique stealing login credentials that is having a wide impact, even on experienced technical users.

I deliberately left out technical details and focused on what you need to know to protect yourself against this phishing attack and other attacks like it in the hope of getting the word out, particularly among less technical users.

Over the past few weeks there have been reports of experienced technical users being hit by this.

That email may come from someone you know who has had their account hacked using this technique.

It may also include something that looks like an image of an attachment you recognize from the sender.

Instead, a new tab opens up and you are prompted by Gmail to sign in again.

You glance at the location bar and you see accounts.google.com in there.

It looks like this.

A commenter on Hacker News describes in clear terms what they experienced over the holiday break once they signed in to the fake page.

It may be automated or they may have a team standing by to process accounts as they are compromised.

However, this technique can be used to steal credentials from many other platforms with many variations in the basic technique.

That will avoid phishing attacks that steal your username and password.

When you glance up at the browser location bar and see data:texthtml.

But on the far right you can see the beginning of what is a very large chunk of text.

This is actually a file that opens in a new tab and creates a completely functional fake Gmail login page which sends your credentials to the attacker.

If you arent paying close attention you will ignore the data:texthtml preamble and assume the URL is safe.

It turns out that this attack has caught, or almost caught several technical users who have either tweeted, blogged or commented about it.

There is a specific reason why this is so effective that has to do with human perception.

It should look like this in Chrome when signing into Gmail or Google.

You should also take special note of the green color and lock symbol that appears on the left.

If you cant verify the protocol and verify the hostname, stop and consider what you just clicked on to get to that sign-in page.

Word January 2017 Verification And You

GMail calls this 2- step verification and you can find out how to enable it on this page.

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