The lock icon is associated with SSL web security technology which involves encryption and security certificates. In that case the scam's designers used encrypted SSL conections to direct users to their site but fraudulent certificates to persuade...
Presented with a carefully spoofed Bank Of the West email which directed recipients to the phishing website www.bankofthevvest.com (with a double 'v' instead of 'w'), complete with a padlock in the content, spoofed Verisign logo and certificate...
However, when users visit a site with a fraudulent URL and no SSL certificate their address bar will turn red warning them they may be straying into dangerous territory. If the site's URL tallies with who its owner is, and the SSL certificate is...
This is a new type of security certificate being sold by the same companies that sell Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, certificates which allow traffic to be encrypted and are indicated by a yellow padlock in web browsers.
Davies recommended Extended Valuation SSL (EVSSL) to online retailers, which among other things causes the address bar to turn green if the site is bona fide and red if suspected to be a phishing site.
Cranor's report could be positive news for a company such as VeriSign, which in December launched a tool with Microsoft that changes the colour of the browser address bar when it's displaying a website that has an "extended validation certificate...
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