Tabnabbing Fighter:Phishing Attack Protection

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Tabnabbing Fighter:Phishing Attack Protection

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2019-11-25

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Protects you from Tabnabbing phishing attacks

Browse safe and happy without worry about tab nabbing!

Understand what is tabnabbing -

Tabnabbing is a computer exploit and phishing attack, which persuades users to submit their login details and passwords to popular websites by impersonating those sites and convincing the user that the site is genuine.

The attack takes advantage of user trust and inattention to detail in regard to tabs, and the ability of browsers to navigate across a page's origin in inactive tabs a long time after the page is loaded. Tabnabbing is different from most phishing attacks in that the user no longer remembers that a certain tab was the result of a link unrelated to the login page, because the fake login page is loaded in one of the long-lived open tabs in their browser

What we don’t expect is that a page we’ve been looking at will change behind our backs, when we aren’t looking. That’ll catch us by surprise.