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How do i protect a site against phishing attack. I know phishing occurs when trying to send
data using form action eg. action="buy.jsp". The attacker can remotely phish attack the form action to his own stealing.
Judging from this scenario, how can i protect it against phishing attack assuming the site is hosted on either Linux or Windows Servers

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That's not a phishing attack. It sounds like you are describing man in the middle. Which you protect against using https and by using post so data isn't in the URL.
 
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Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:It sounds like you are describing man in the middle (MITM). Which you protect against using https and by using post so data isn't in the URL.



Sadly, on some smartphones, the phone vendors are explicitly doing a MITM attack, they claim it improves things. It clearly destroys any hope of security. See
https://coderanch.com/t/602568/Security/Nokia-admits-implementing-Man-Middle
 
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I can't believe they are doing that!
 
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Also me.. i can't believe they doing that..
 
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Pat Farrell wrote:
Sadly, on some smartphones, the phone vendors are explicitly doing a MITM attack, they claim it improves things. It clearly destroys any hope of security. See
https://coderanch.com/t/602568/Security/Nokia-admits-implementing-Man-Middle



WoW! .. Coooooool ... I Like IT . But why Nokia People need to disclose this evidence ?
 
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Arun Giridhar wrote:WoW! .. Coooooool ... I Like IT . But why Nokia People need to disclose this evidence ?


Um, what? Nokia broke web security and privacy, and you think that's cool? You can bet they wouldn't have done so if it hadn't become public knowledge by some other means.
 
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:
Um, what? Nokia broke web security and privacy, and you think that's cool?


Yes!
 
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