{"id":684,"date":"2016-05-28T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2016-05-28T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T22:00:55","slug":"web-companies-too-lazy-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/web-companies-too-lazy-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"web: companies too lazy to follow phishing advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basic Internet security means &#8220;Don&#8217;t click links that resemble legitimate sites&#8221;. Yet lazy companies persist in sending e-mails that invite you to &#8220;View your statement&#8221; or &#8220;Enjoy our discount offer&#8221; that go to e.g. click.global.expediamail.com instead of expedia.com (that one doesn&#8217;t even use the http<strong>S<\/strong> (ecure) protocol!). Even PayPal does it, sending me &#8220;\u231a \ud83d\udc5c Get a Credit decision in Seconds&#8221; which asks me to click https:\/\/epl.paypal-communication.com\/blahblah, which is counter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/webapps\/mpp\/security\/suspicious-activity\">their own security advice about suspicious activity<\/a>! Companies engage in this stupidity because the people in marketing enter into agreements with third parties to deliver e-mail and track customer responses without involving the web site or security team, and the quick hack to make it work is to register a separate site.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s impossible for scammers to register http:\/\/LegitimateBigCo-<strong>myscamsite<\/strong>.com , but who can tell the subtlety of that distinction with the definitely fake http:\/\/<strong>myscamsite<\/strong>-LegitimateBigCo.com ?! I&#8217;m a web engineer and I don&#8217;t grok that level of detail in domain registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic Internet security means &#8220;Don&#8217;t click links that resemble legitimate sites&#8221;. Yet lazy companies persist in sending e-mails that invite you to &#8220;View your statement&#8221; or &#8220;Enjoy our discount offer&#8221; that go to e.g. click.global.expediamail.com instead of expedia.com (that one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/web-companies-too-lazy-phishing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}