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JoXo009:

--- Quote from: jpeters ---... phishing

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How? Could you explain please.

Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication - link.

How could this attempt succeed by technical* means, if a user
1. handles all his sensitive data in a virtual machine, where he never visits other webpages and never opens emails.
2. handles his email in an email only virtual machine
3. uses a third virtual machine for web browsing and never enters real data there.
4. restores the setup snapshot, if he likes to have a clean start again.

To my opinion phishing of sensitive data isn't possible in a sandbox without such data.

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* Obviously there are other means too. The attacker could ring the the door bell and ask, please give me your credit card credentials. The attacker could try to convince you, to break above rules. But that's something else.

jpeters:

--- Quote from: JoXo009 on December 12, 2009, 10:40:17 AM ---
* Obviously there are other means too. The attacker could ring the the door bell and ask, please give me your credit card credentials. The attacker could try to convince you, to break above rules. But that's something else.

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hey...as long as you stay in your sandbox environment, this shouldn't be an issue. :D

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