Phishing justice, frontier style
By Adam Gaffin, NetworkWorld.com, 05/19/05
Netcraft reports that online vigilantes have started taking down phishing sites:
... Phishing sites are commonly found hosted on compromised web servers, where lack of security allows fraudsters to access machines and upload phishing content. If a fraudster exploits these security weaknesses without subsequently securing the machine, then online vigilantes are just as likely to exploit the weaknesses to go in and replace the fraudulent content. ...
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