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Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine(arstechnica.com)

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JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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Wow. Valid cert, matching icon, identical web page, and virtually-identical URL. I absolutely would have fallen for that, and I’ve been meaning to visit KeePass’s website and download the latest version, too.

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Exec@pawb.social
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Valid cert

That means nothing nowadays regarding authenticity

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m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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Except when it’s an Extended Validation certificate, which requires the requester to go through a manual vetting process.

But apparently for some reason, Firefox doesn’t show the EV label in the URL bar anymore.

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NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
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That’s because EV certs were not only a pretty awful idea in hindsight (A, B), but also because humans aren’t really good at checking the security and trustworthiness of a website (C) in general, which is why browsers have collectively started to stop signalling HTTPS as something to be trusted all together.

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