Jun 11 2008

Be smart and safe with Mozilla Firefox

Today (11- June- 2008) , I got a mail from ICICI Bank <admin@icicibank.com>
It’s content goes like this..

 

Security Alert

ICICI Bank has been receiving complaints from our customers of unauthorized access of the NetBanking accounts. As a result we have started reviewing our
NetBanking Accounts periodically and temporarily restrict access of those accounts which we think are vulnerable.It has come to our attention that your account
information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your account in this year 2008 and to reduce the instance of fraud on our website.
If you could please take 5-10 minutes out of your online experience and update your personal records, you will not run into any future problems with our online service.
Once you have updated your account records your online banking account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.

To update your records click the following link(s) and fill in the necessary requirements :

Personal Account Holders – https://infinity.icicibank.co.in/BANKAWAY?Action.RetUser.Init.001=Y&AppSignonBankId=ICI&AppType=retail&abrdPrf=N
Business Account Holders – https://cib.icicibank.co.incorp/BANKAWAY?Action.CorpUser.Init.001=Y&AppSignonBankId=ICI&AppType=corporate

Please sign in to Online Banking after you have verified your account to ensure your account security. It is all about your security.
We seek your cooperation for serving you better.

Sincerely,

Benoy Dasgupta
Security Department
ICICI Bank

Hmm… A really good looking work of fraud…… phishing at it’s best.
But I decided to give it a try at Firefox and Internet Explor(d)er. IE acted as though nothing happenned. But the Firefox actually advised me that this is an unsafe website and it is potentially dangerous for me to browse that site !! Watch it…!!

 I will call it people friendly technology. Long live Free Software….. and of course Firefox. I feel it is lot more safer for me and people that I know to use Firefox as their default browser.

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