Re: IE7 add-on

From: Dave Howe (David.Howe@ansgroup.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 18:34:05 EST


jason_jones98@hotmail.com wrote:
> Log into your bank, open another tab within the window i.e. google.
> Close the banking tab, hit Alt-X and the 'logged-in' banking window
> re-opens. I have also attempted this on other applications and the
> majority work. Can someone advise if M$ have provided us with a great
> MITM plug-in tool?

Not really. The same effect can be seen if you hit Ctrl-H for a history
list, and open the stored page link in the "current" tab. It depends on
either a hash token being in the URL, or a session cookie still being
current in the cookie-jar as you have not close the browser.

so, yet more evidence for why you should log out and close your browser
properly after using internet banking and not mix-and-match tabs, but
other than that, nothing spectacular.

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