full-disclosure - strange domain name in phishing email

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Date: Thu Mar 16 16:03:03 2006
From: juha-matti.laurio at netti.fi (Juha-Matti Laurio)
Subject: strange domain name in phishing email

It seems that this case has the name Dotless IP Address Security Issue 
and KB article #168617 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168617 
describes it even in IE4.
Correct if I'm wrong.

- Juha-Matti


> IIRC, Microsoft changed that as one of the security updates to IE. For a 
> time, it was a popular phishing trick. I also remember there was a way 
> to do that (or something similar) to bypass the security zones in IE and 
> make it think it was a trusted site, but can't find that reference at hand.
> 
> The "rest" of windows will still do it though. Try "ping 2887060730" or 
> "telnet 2887060730 80".
> 
> ~Mike.