When US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! email accont was hacked the other day, it was done without any greater technical skills. All that the Anonymous hacker needed to do was to use Yahoo!’s password recovery feature and fill in the appropriate answers. The questions where all general ones – so general that they, […]
Open redirectors as a tool for scammers
How would you classify the below URL? http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com As belonging to Google or as one belonging to eBay? It leads into eBay.com, but it goes there via Google… Well, how about this one: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lindqvist.com/ url/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com Horrible, isn’t it? It’s somehow associated with Google, ends up at eBay and it’s not quite clear what the www.lindqvist.com […]