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Tab Napping

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By P@rth Tab Napping  is a new form of phishing that is hitting the internet now. With the conventional  form of phishing, for example, you might receive an email that is supposedly from your bank,  and it might ask you to login and update or confirm your account details, of course, there  would be a link to your banks website in the email for you to click, which would take you  to a page that looks identical to your real banks login page. How does it works Tab napping is more sophisticated than the phishing scams we’ve seen so far, and it no  longer relies on persuading you to click on a dodgy link. Instead it targets internet users  who open lots of tabs on their browser at the same time (for example, by pressing CTRL + T).  if you have multiple tabs open and you are reading the page on your current active tab,  any of the other inactive browser tabs could be replaced with a fake web page that is...