Anti-Phishing Protection of popular Web Browsers

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Anti-Phishing-Test

These tests evaluate the protection provided against phishing websites.

“Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information
such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a
trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. This is similar to
Fishing, where the fisherman puts a bait at the hook, thus, pretending
to be a genuine food for fish. But the hook inside it takes the complete
fish out of the lake. Communications purporting to be from popular
social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT
administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public.
Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail spoofing or instant
messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website
whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one.”

Tested products

The following up-to-date popular web browsers

were evaluated in this Anti-Phishing test:

• Apple Safari 5.1.7.7534.57.2
• Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0.9112.16421 / 9.0.12
• Mozilla Firefox 17.0.1
• Opera 12.11.166

Source

[Shadowx]

Very good information btw :) but i will cope with the "phising" :showoff:

[majithia23]

You guys might want to take a look at this detailed topic on phishing i once wrote in the forums .

http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/98043-anti-phishingtest-your-knowledge-and-learn-about-all-the-tools-to-prevent-phishing/

Details regarding --

>Phishing

>Phishing tests

>Enhanced Anti Phishing Protection .

:rolleyes:

[Pedrito]

FIrefox! :rofl:

[DKT27]

I believe Firefox guys have taken steps in past, to prevent phishing from atleast GUI side. Maybe they can take an example from this tests and improve. :)

[ande]

Well, to be honest, I don't rely on browser to protect me from phishing sites, further more in Chrome I disabled phishing and malware protection.