ItsyourIP.com » Firefox http://www.itsyourip.com Your gateway to Internet Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:48:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.itsyourip.com http://www.itsyourip.com/wp-content/mbp-favicon/Internet-Alt.ico ItsyourIP.com Secure yourself from Phishing attacks with NetCraft Toolbar http://www.itsyourip.com/Security/secure-yourself-from-phishing-attacks-with-netcraft-toolbar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=secure-yourself-from-phishing-attacks-with-netcraft-toolbar http://www.itsyourip.com/Security/secure-yourself-from-phishing-attacks-with-netcraft-toolbar/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:07:40 +0000 admin http://www.itsyourip.com/Security/secure-yourself-from-phishing-attacks-with-netcraft-toolbar/

Phishers send well crafted emails as if coming from a valid source like your bank tricking you to enter your bank account or any portal (like eBay or Paypal) details including login and password or PIN numbers . Once, you enter the details, they are sent to remote servers. Now, that’s more than anything for the hackers to loot money out of your account.

Taking security seriously, we will discuss the community aided Netcraft tool bar for Internet Explorer & Firefox. First of all, I have to applaud NetCraft toolbar as by far the best toolbar that you can get for free. When I tested a new eBay scam email URL, no other toolbar other than NetCraft can catch the Phishing URL.

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No Script allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, say your home-banking web site, and guards the "trust boundaries" against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS). This is the most important feature of this.

Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality…

Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript

NoScript works with Firefox 1.5 to 3.*. NoScript can be installed from the following firefox addon website:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

Browse the URL from Firefox and click Install Now button. Once installed click "Restart Firefox" button for the addon to become active.

NoScript maintains a whitelist and it is important that you add your trusted sites in the white list to ensure proper functioning of the website. To do this, add the NoScripts Toolbar from View – Toolbars – Customize, select NoScripts icon and drag it to the Navigation toolbar.

Now, click on the NoScripts button and click Options, select Whitelist.

Add the website address of all your trusted websites. It allows you to Import and Export list as well.

Obvious, there is always going to be some website you don't remember. When you browse a trusted website (not added to the whitelist), a toolbar pops at the bottom of the website with an options button. Click the button and allow the website. Or if the site is not what you thought it was, then mark it as untrusted.

For example, try browsing a website like www.google.co.uk, you can see it blocking the scripts running from the website. A toolbar appears in the bottom of the page with an options button. Click the button and allow the domain, if you think google is a trusted site ;-)

Now, that to me is your browser, your internet, your security while browsing in your control.

A great work by Giorgio Maone.

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