[Courtesy of Mick C. at Whizardries]

One way that the unscrupulous have of gaining access to your personal information is to use “social engineering” to trick you into clicking on a link that will take you to a different website than the one you think you should be going to. If you get those emails that say “Go to https://www.ebay.com/some-long-string-of… to verify your account” you end up going to “http://www.phisherheaven.com/now-we-can-steal-your-identity” when you click on the link then you know what I’m talking about.

Now, the good guys are starting to fight back. Qualcomm’s Eudora 6.2 email program will examine the URL and pop-up a tooltip to tell you if a link goes some place other than where it says it is going. Now, AOL has announced it will begin to…

[AOL Blocking Phish Sites, Continued]