Online Criminals
Seth Godin describes his recent experience with a phishing e-mail.
He questions if phishers ever think of themselves as criminals. I doubt that they spend much time analyzing that — they do not know their victims in person, they never see the people they steal from. And the anonymity makes this crime much easier as Seth already mentioned a few years ago.
It is very sad to see that number of spam e-mails and phishing attacks continue to grow every day. One thing I am confident about — the more people protect themselves with the tools like RoboForm or 1Passwd, the less phishing will take place.
I don't see how 1Passwd or Roboform will prevent phishing. Your passwords will be sent to fake website. Doesn't matter what software do you have locally.
Posted by: bravomail | October 11, 2006 at 06:52 PM
1Passwd and RoboForm will fill in the passwords only if the domain matches.
You can see 1Passwd phishing protection in action here:
http://1passwd.com/features/phishing
Posted by: rkarimov | October 11, 2006 at 07:05 PM