Gtalk Users Hit by Phishing Scam

[JMcEntegart]

Yesterday Gmail users suffered through a major outage in service, lasting several hours and affecting users all over the world. Today’s problem is a horse of another colour.

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[Tindytim]

I find phishing quite interesting.

Where normally, an issue is usually a fault of the developer, and a group exploiting a mistake of the developer. In this case, everyone is at fault. The user needs to make the mistake of trusting a site or link.

I really get an issues with my computer, and perhaps it's because I don't easily fall for phishing attempts.

 

[imabug]

this isn't any different from all the other phishing schemes out there that come through my email or other IM protocols. Why should anyone be any more annoyed by one that comes through GTalk than through any other channel?

 

[Tindytim]

[citation][nom]imabug[/nom]this isn't any different from all the other phishing schemes out there that come through my email or other IM protocols. Why should anyone be any more annoyed by one that comes through GTalk than through any other channel?[/citation]
Because they used an exploit allowing them to send the phishing sites from people on their contacts lists.

Not that I'd click it anyway.

 

[Maxor127]

I've been having this sort of problem on yahoo. It's pretty annoying especially since I get buzzed and messaged.

 

[Guest]

This is now happening with another url kind of obvious now that i read it fastforwarded.com. I'm an idiot.