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Re: Identity Theft



On Ma, 21 dec 21, 10:13:07, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> On 21/12/21 10:09 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote:s.
> > There is a type of attack called cross-site scripting (XSS). It's mostly
> > been eliminated by latest version browsers, but there are always
> > zero-day vulnerabilities.
> > 
> > The effect is that if you are vulnerable and have two tabs open, one to
> > the legitimate site, and one to a bad guy site, the bad guy can alter
> > your trusted site and for instance change a valid link into something
> > malicious, or change a displayed phone number.
> > 
> > More at https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/
> > 
> 
> You can mitigate XSS by having a single browser that is used solely to
> access high value sites. e.g. if you routinely run Firefox, have a copy of
> Vivaldi that you use to access your banks - one at a time.

Hopefully Multi-Account Containers helps with this as well, point 4. in 
the "What you can do with Multi-Account Containers" seems to imply it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers


Kind regards,
Andrei
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