{"id":5974,"date":"2018-11-27T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5974"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:35:00","slug":"phishing-sites-using-ssl-protection-to-make-them-look-more-legit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/11\/27\/phishing-sites-using-ssl-protection-to-make-them-look-more-legit\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Sites using SSL protection to make them look more legit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this engadget article, an anti-phishing company called PhishLabs has found that almost 50% of phishing sites are now using SSL encryption on their sites.\u00a0 Although they are now encrypted traffic they are still stealing information from you!\u00a0 Any now that they are using SSL, some browser pop ups won&#8217;t alert you as much that there&#8217;s something wrong with this site (IE not using SSL).\u00a0 This also will show the padlock in your browser giving the user a false sense of security.\u00a0 They mention in the article, phishing sites using SSL as been trending upwards over the past few years.\u00a0 I can definitely see in the future most if not all phishing sites will do this all the time.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a few extra dollars to get SSL certs, but completely worth it to them if they get to steal valid credentials and personally identifiable information.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/11\/26\/half-of-phishing-sites-now-show-as-secure\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this engadget article, an anti-phishing company called PhishLabs has found that almost 50% of phishing sites are now using SSL encryption on their sites.\u00a0 Although they are now encrypted traffic they are still stealing information from you!\u00a0 Any now that they are using SSL, some browser pop ups won&#8217;t alert you as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}