Wednesday, 12 January 2011

Tabnapping tutorial&how to stay secure




What is tabnapping?

tab napping is a new form of phishing..in which a attacker redirects a normal looking page to malformed page either in some time or when victims moves to other already opened tabs.Tabnapping might sound simple but its very effective as victims feels comfortable with normal looking page and voilla he gets pawned when he moves back to original tab

tabnapping was developed by aza razkin













how to stay safe from tabnapping
1)Always look for the url in adress bar before logging in to important sites.

2)Try using no-script addon from firefox it will disable js and other malicious scripts which can be used by hackers.

3)Try using ctr+n for tabs



here is the video demonstrating  it practically


here is the code

A New Type of Phishing Attack from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

5 comments:

  1. Ok i got it ...

    but why use ctrl+n or ctrl+t to open new tab...??

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  2. THANKS YAAR IT IS REALLY A VERY IMFORMATIVE PLS UPDATE US ALL WITH THIS TYPE OF ATTACKS......

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  3. wait for few days bro.. u wil get lots of exclusive tuts on various security attacks @JITENDRA
    n keep visiting...

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  4. praveer ctr+n for new windows

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  5. thanks yaar i was finding it a bit difficult to get the script but i got it here
    thanks alot

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