Phishers have now come up with something new and witty to steal your identity- tabnapping (tab + kidnapping). Aza Raskin, the creative lead of Firefox unveiled this simple, elegant style of identity-theft which Phishers are using to exploit the inattention and trust of users in their browser tabs.

Tabnapping involves secretly replacing an existing tab with a fake one which shows the login page of a website,and the user is duped into giving away his/her password. All popular browsers on windows and Mac OS X are vulnerable to tabnapping.

Consider this- You are browsing on the net, with multiple tabs open, as usual, navigating from one tab to another occasionally. One of these tabs is of your Gmail account.
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