[OpenID] Security related Use Cases?

Praveen Alavilli AlavilliPraveen at aol.com
Wed Oct 22 15:33:35 UTC 2008


But why would a hacker open the real yahoo sign in page in an iframe 
(security enabled or not) - there is nothing to gain from it (whether it 
shows the signin seal or not). Instead they are better of showing their 
own phishing page to steal the credentials.

- Praveen

Breno de Medeiros wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Breno,
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>> Do you have a demo of this?
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> I could put one together, the directions are here:
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> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534622(VS.85).aspx
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>> Thanks
>> Allen
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>> Breno de Medeiros wrote:
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>>> IE allows you to create an iframe and disable JS inside the iframe.
>>> 70-85% of users will be vulnerable to this attack.
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