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Opera Browser Address Bar Spoofing


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Just found this on Secunia's site.

Secunia Advisory: SA12028

Release Date: 2004-07-08

Moderately critical

Impact: Spoofing

Where: From remote

Software: Opera 5.x

Opera 6.x

Opera 7.x

Description:

bitlance winter has discovered a vulnerability in the Opera browser, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to conduct phishing attacks against a user.

Solution:

Disable support for Javascript.

Input the URL to trusted sites directly in the address bar and don't follow links from untrusted sources.

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It's beginning to appear that these much lauded alternatives to IE are not so good after all. Now that quite a few people have shifted, the idiots are turning their attention to these.

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Attacking non-M$ software isn't new, although it's becoming more frequent as you say. In the case of Opera though they'll be working on vulnerabilities the same day that they are identified and they'll have an upgraded Opera version available in a trice. M$ just release a dubious patch several months later.

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It's beginning to appear that these much lauded alternatives to IE are not so good after all.  Now that quite a few people have shifted, the idiots are turning their attention to these.

Yea, but how much more attention is IE getting. Look at it that way, and all the other browsers put together don't even come close :rolleyes:

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