Ajaxian » TabNabbing: Phishing By Switching Background Tab Content

May 25 2010, 11:04am

Ajaxian » TabNabbing: Phishing By Switching Background Tab ContentSource: ajaxian.comAza Raskin identifies yet another form of phishing attack. Tabnabbing is the process of replacing the entire contents of a page while it’s in a background tab. Want to see it in action? Just visit Aza’s article, switch to another tab for 5 seconds and see what happens. ...    Moral: If you use many browser tabs, check the URL before entering login credentials on any of those tabs.