Web Bowsers At Risk To New Spoofing Scheme

By Ian Bell February 7, 2005

“Danish security company Secunia posted an alert describing the vulnerability — which affects Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror — as a “moderately critical” problem.

The vulnerability impacts every browser built atop the open-source Geko browser kernel — nearly all except IE — because of a flaw in handling International Domain Names (IDN). Hackers can register domain names with certain international characters that resemble other commonly-used characters, said Secunia, to spoof the address and trick the user into thinking they’re at a legitimate site and/or it’s secured by SSL. “

Believe it or not, Internet Explorer seems to be the only browser not at risk. Good job Microsoft!

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