The Red Brick Times

Whenever I notice that the last several posts in a row are from me I vow to shutup for awhile. Afterall, this isn't a personal blog, it's a community one. Then, as always seems to happen, I stumble on something like the link below and think, "wow, that's news to me, and kind of important to know", and want to inform/warn people about it. Maybe it isn't news to you or you just aren't interested in this kind of thing. If so please let me know and I'll cut it out.

Online Banking Industry Very Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting Frauds:
"Well known banks have created an infestation of application bugs and vulnerabilities across the Internet,allowing fraudsters to insert their data collection forms into bona fide banking sites, creating convincing frauds that are undetectable to most customers. Indeed, a personal finance journalist writing for The Motley Fool was brave enough to publicly admit to having fallen for a fraud running on Suntrust's site and having her current account cleaned out. It's a reasonable premise that if a Motley Fool journalist can fall for a fraud, anyone can."

There's a link at the bottom of the above page to a free (IE only) toobar that combats this sort of exploit.
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