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Old 19th April 2017
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Default Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

April 14th, 2017

Very interesting reading, Please read through, because this article shows you how you can spoof a website and have it show as secure. I tried it, and yes, it's true.

They set up their own fake site of a healthcare company, with certificate, and yes, you can actually have the same address, with a secure certificate display from firefox and chrome, but it will be a fake website. There is a fix for Firefox, but apparently, there is no fix for Chrome, and I assume that goes for Chromium as well.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/...code-phishing/

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Per the link -- which must have been updated -- the fix for Chrome is already in their Canary test release, with production rollout expected in the next several days.
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That is interesting, it seem like they would have made the default setting true, and then the users that
need to use would /could change it,
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That is interesting, it seem like they would have made the default setting true, and then the users that
need to use would /could change it,
If you refer to firefox, then unfortunately that doesn't seem to be how things work. Many useful UI options have been removed over the years (e.g. javascript "master off switch") and now have to be configured via "about:config" or have vanished altogether - plus the defaults are not always in the end users best interests in terms of privacy and security. The google spyware and geo-location is on by default for example.
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Many useful UI options have been removed over the years (e.g. javascript "master off switch")
A lot of Websites (especially WebApps) today are based on Javascript and disabling Javascript renders these Websites broken and unusable. For some sites there are just small scripts written in Javascript, but for some others major component is Javascript-based program which is communicating with service using HTTP(S) protocol and exchanging data in JSON format.
A lot of Mozilla Firefox users are not IT professionals and don't know what is Javascript, but they want to use them. These users would blame not themselves, but Mozilla for broken Websites.
It is rather understandable why Mozilla has hidden this switch.
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A lot of Mozilla Firefox users are not IT professionals and don't know what is Javascript, but they want to use them. These users would blame not themselves, but Mozilla for broken Websites.
It is rather understandable why Mozilla has hidden this switch.
No, this could be a good reason for having javascript on by default, but not for removing from the user interface a switch to turn javascript off entirely for who don't want it.
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No, this could be a good reason for having javascript on by default, but not for removing from the user interface a switch to turn javascript off entirely for who doesn't want it.
I think that anybody who understands what he is doing disabling Javascript can found about "about:config" settings page or at least be informed enough to install NoScript extension.
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