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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-10-25 08:13:50
subject: Re: Browser Security

From: "John Beamish" 

So running a browser in a VM is not a fully secured environment.

I asked the question because Joe and Josephine Sixpack may no longer be
part of a botnet but they will still hand over the keys to the family
wealth if they use a credit card.

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:10:03 -0400, Geo  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.thx7ioymm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> Would it be possible to visit a "poison" site that
causes a keystroke
>> logger (in, say, a hidden frame or some such) to trap and transmit back
>> to
>> "home base"?
>
> Typically that's what cross site scripting exploits are. It looks like
> the
> real site but it's not, may even pass you on to the real site after you
> enter your login info.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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