10 September 2006

Yahoo!'s Phising Proof Login

Yahoo! has come up with a new idea to catch up with phising attempt on their site's login page !

Yahoo! now gives an option to select an image from your computer to be shown whenever you attempt to access Yahoo!'s login page from your computer.
This image will be shown by Yahoo! at the right-top of your login box on Yahoo!'s login page!

Or you may set some special text message to be shown to you whenever you attempt to login to Yahoo!

This will assure you that it is Yahoo's official login page not any phising attempt.


Note: You may use Mozilla Firefox's latest version to prevent such phising attempts.
It senses such phising attempt & shows you a warning that this is a possible phising attempt.
For example,
Try surfing for, www.ork0t.com from firefox browser. It will warn you of phising for that !


Yeah, U'll need to make such settings for every computer u r usin to login yahoo! ;)

Thanks :)

(This post Dedicated to Arpan who encoraged me to continue blogging)

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