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Ehhh, what's happening here?

22-11-2008 12:28PM

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cormie

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055424696

A username and password being requested within a thread

Post edited by Shield on December 2021

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#2 22-11-2008 12:33PM

Hagar

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Clever but dangerous, how is he able to execute code from within a post?
What else can he do?

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#3 22-11-2008 12:38PM

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He's linking to this image

http://jfbusiness.webexone.com/ann.dav/9878/Ulster_JPEG.jpg

Which requires authentication to view, hence your browser naturally asks for the password. Nothing dodgy here.

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#4 22-11-2008 12:43PM

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Ah grand, harmless so

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#5 22-11-2008 12:45PM

Hagar

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Just about to post the same. I had a look at the source code for the page and it appears he's trying to embed an image that is hosted on a secure server which is asking for a username/password to access the image. Innocent enough probably but if users respond with their Boards.ie username/password they will be logged on the external server.

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#6 22-11-2008 01:13PM

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I've removed it.

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