Open Redirects and Phishing Vectors

By Stuart Colville in security on

There was an interesting article on the Google Webmaster Central blog [http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-redirect-urls-is-your-site-being.html] back in Jan talking about open redirects being abused by spammers. One point they didn't go into too much detail on is that of phishing vectors. If you'…