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Phishing is a portmanteau of "phreaking and fishing". "Phreaking", another kind of scam, is in turn a portmanteau of "phone" and "freaking".
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What is Fishing attempt?
A Fishing attempt as opposed to a Phishing attempt is when someone tries to catch a fish.
How do you pronounce the word phishing?
The term "phishing" is pronounced the same as the word "fishing". The 'ph' has an '"f" sound like phone, pharmacy, or phonetic. The "PH" stands for "Personal History" as the scammer is usually posing as a legitimate interest who needs your information.
Attempt to trick users into providing account or identity information is known as?
phishing ( as in fishing for information)
What is the homonym for fishing?
Phishing - Using email or an internet site to try and trick someone into revealing secure or personal information.
What is a spear fishing cyber attack?
It is a targeted phishing attack. See for example: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2009/april/spearphishing_040109
How do you spell fishook?
The compound noun is spelled fishhook (a fishing hook).
How do you fight a phishing scam?
It usually doesn't do any good to report it to the bank/broker/retailer/service that is being spoofed. They do not have any staff to pursue phishing attempts. It would be great if they would set up "honeypots" to trap the criminals, but they don't. About the only thing you can do to fight phishing is to make it unprofitable by wasting the scammers' time. Go to their bogus web site and feed them entirely phony information: name, e-mail address, password, whatever. The more people who do this, the less profitable phishing becomes.
What is the difference between phishers and phishing?
phishing is the act of stealing accounts, and the phisher is the person that is phishing.
What is the difference between phishing and spear fishing?
Phishing is a social engineering tactic where the attacker attempts to get a user to divulge sensitive information (like username/password, bank account number, personal information, etc.) or go to a malicious website where such information can be harvested. It uses "bait" such as telling the user that they are their bank asking for the information or posing as some other authority like the system administrator. Usually it is delivered by email or Instant Messenger. Spearphishing is a subset of phishing. Whereas general phishing targets a wide range of people trying to get some of them to divulge general information, spearphishing targets key individuals who are expected to have very special access or information that the attacker wants. It could be a company executive or a military officer. As a variation on the pun, attacks on high level executives or military officers is sometimes referred to as "whaling".
How do you spell traot?
It is spelled trout. An example sentence might be, "Many people enjoy fishing for trout."
What are consequences of phishing?
The risks of phishing include getting a virus on your computer or phone. You can also be fined very heavily if caught phishing.
Is mecca spelled like this?
It is to be spelled as Makkah
