full-disclosure - Re: Suspicious URL in IDS

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Message-Id: <AD81DA1D-B4A1-43C4-A334-E5DBE542D2BC@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:59:12 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: "Kelly Robinson" <caliana1989@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Suspicious URL in IDS

On 03 Nov 07, at 16:24, Kelly Robinson wrote:
> Is the following URL valid?  http://www.address.com@....sitenameremoved.ru

Technically, yes. (It specifies that the client is to authenticate to www.sitenameremoved.ru 
  with the username "www.address.com".) It's often used in phishing  
attempts, though, as a sufficiently long username can be used to  
obscure the actual hostname and path.

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