How does PasswordMaker defeat phishing attacks?
Most phishing attacks occur when you navigate to a URL which appears to be that of a site that you trust, but actually is owned by an attacker. For example, you might navigate to http://www.bc1.lu/ instead of the Bank of Luxembourg’s legimite URL, http://www.bcl.lu/. The only difference between these two URLs is the lower-case letter L (used by the legitimite site) and the number 1 (used by the deceptive site). The attacker’s intent is to get you to enter your username/password credentials on his deceptive site. He can then use those credentials on the legitimite site to do nefarious things. If you use PasswordMaker, you’ll be safe and secure. This is because the password it generates is based on the URL to which you’ve navigated. The password generated at a deceptive site is completely different than the one generated at a legitimite site (because their URLs differ, even if by one character). You might still be fooled into thinking http://www.bc1.lu/ is the Bank of Luxembourg, but the
