Re: [HV-PAPER] Anti-Phishing Tips You Should Not Follow

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:14:58 +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene said:
> Marcos Agüero wrote:
> > Jasper Bryant-Greene escribió:
> > > Seriously though, it wouldn't be that hard to forward the POST on to the
> > > real bank website, would it?
> > I think so, but would be very easy to detect. Logs would show lots of
> > diferent user logging in from the same IP Address.
>
> Phishing scams are public in nature. They aren't trying to avoid 
> detection :) and the IP address would of course be spoofed.

http is a TCP connection, so you'd have to get through the 3-packet handshake.
The vast majority of machines now implement RFC1948, so it's not that easy to
do anymore....

(It's doable by somebody with sufficient technical ability - but if you're
*that* good, why you wasting time running a phishing scam?)

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