Microsoft Patents Telling You If A Website Is On A List Of Phishing Sites?
Mike Masnick writes on techdirt.com:
It seems that every few days when new patents are announced there are a few gems awarded to Microsoft. Take, for example, Microsoft's latest patent on Phishing Detection, Prevention, and Notification.More here.
If they truly came up with an innovative way to stop phishing attacks, that would be interesting. Instead, it appears that the patent is for looking at the URLs found in an email or visited by a website, comparing them to a known list of phishing sites -- and then alerting you that the link might be fraudulent.
posted by Fergie @ 2/17/2007 12:33:00 PM
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