bugtraq - Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide"

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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:39:02 -0700
From: Daniel Veditz <dveditz@...zio.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide"

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Gunter Ollmann (NGS) wrote:
> 
>>While the Phishers develop evermore sophisticated attack vectors [...]
>>Customers too have become wary of "official" email, and organisations
>>struggle to install confidence in their communications.
> 
> Sometimes it's unbelivable how long it takes organizations to discover 
> that email can be signed.  Especially nowdays when all major mail 
> readers have support for at least S/MIME

How does that help in practice? A user fooled by a link to ebay-support.com
is just as likely to accept signed mail from foo@...y-support.com. Not to
mention that the potential profits from phishing could easily finance the
purchase of a forged cert if someone at one of the built-in CA's was
corruptible. Given the several that are based in 3rd world companies (not to
mention recent US corporate scandals) I have no confidence that won't
eventually happen.

-Dan Veditz