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Phishing
Phishing is the term given to popular internet and email scams which rely on a malevolent user (a “phisher”) tricking an unsuspecting person into revealing sensitive information (financial information, social security numbers, etc.). Questions about phishing techniques and how to avoid being taken advantage of belong here.
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It is an invasion of privacy and it can lead to greater crimes like fraud and theft. If someone has private information about you, like your bank details, they could take money from your bank account.
How can you tell the difference between a legitimate website and a phishing scam?
E-mail is a useful tool that is often misused to deceive, commit crime, or commit fraud. A scam e-mail is an e-mail that entices the recipient to do business, which will result in their being scammed. The most common scams will be for products or services that will sound "too good to be true."
The best way to identify these e-mails is to be skeptical or wary of any claims. Also pay attention to any details, fine print, or lack thereof. A scam artist will hesitate to provide complete information about himself (or herself). A scam will often try to pressure you into acting quickly to buy or sign up. A good rule of thumb is to never do business with any organization that won't give you complete information or tell you who and where it is. The common phrase is "If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is."
Common e-mail scams include
- The Nigerian scam, which claims that a person in a third world country who has access to a large sum of money needs financial aid to move the funds to the U.S.
- Miracle pills or products that burn lots of fat in amazingly short periods of time.
- Job offers that will allow you to get rich quick.
E-mail is often exploited to "phish" for your personal information. The message will claim to be from a bank or credit card company that must "verify" your information. Links in the message will take you to phony but authentic-looking web pages where you are to enter your personal information. This will be used to commit identity theft or fraud in your name.
There are a few questions that you can use to identify the legitimacy of an email most of the time.First, was I expecting this email from the sender who's a friend or do I not know the sender. Viruses have the ability to send themselves to contacts on the host computers contact list. This means even if its from a friend the friend who it originated from may not even know it was sent.Second, is there an file attached to the email or a link in the message. Attachments are usually corrupted software that carries viruses, spyware and other malware.
Third, is the message or headline is little bizzare or shocking. Chances are if either are like this then it is probably a dangerous email. Black hats or people who look for vulnerabilities and then exploit them are constantly sending emails that have shocking headlines to entise users to open the message.
What are the difference between phishing and hacking?
Pharming is a Hacker's attack aiming to redirect a website's traffic to another, bogus website. Pharming can be conducted either by changing the hosts file on a victim's computer or by exploitation of a vulnerability in DNS server software. DNS servers are computers responsible for resolving Internet names into their real addresses - they are the "signposts" of the Internet. Compromised DNS servers are sometimes referred to as "poisoned". The term pharming is a word play on farming and phishing. The term phishing refers to social engineering attacks to obtain access credentials such as user names and passwords. In recent years both pharming and phishing have been used to steal identity information. Pharming has become of major concern to businesses hosting ecommerce and online banking websites. Sophisticated measures known as anti-pharming are required to protect against this serious threat. Antivirus software and spyware removal software cannot protect against pharming. Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. eBay, PayPal and online banks are common targets. Phishing is typically carried out by email or instant messaging,[1] and often directs users to enter details at a website, although phone contact has also been used.[2] Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to fool users.[3] Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical measures.
Spear phishing is the act of creating and sending a phony email to one person or several people at a particular company. The email appears to come from a person of authority - usually someone who works at the same company.
This email might request highly confidential information, passwords or other sensitive data. Since the email appears to be from an authority figure, people may be likely to reply and provide the information. An email may also include a link that the recipient is asked to click - if the person does click, they are likely to inadvertently download spyware to their computer.
A phishing scam is when someone sends an legit looking email in the hope of tricking the user to providing personal information.
While not giving your PII - including usernames, passwords, account numbers, etc. to unauthorized persons is a good way to avoid becoming a victim f phishing, the whole point of phishing is to impersonate an authorized person or entity, thus a person can still be a victim of phishing while believing they have never provided their PII to an unauthorized person. To be effective in defending yourself from phishing, you have to combine the policy of not divulging PII to unauthorized persons with an effective procedure for verifying the identity of the person or entity requesting the PII and being suspicious of requests for PII until you have confirmed both the identity of the person or entity requesting it AND their legitimate need for it.
Where are phishing attacks most common?
Phishing attacks can happen through almost any computer. It can commonly be found through email scams, asking for money or account information. They may also add a virus to the computer.
A phishing attack is launched by a malefactor sending out emails designed to look like they are coming from a legitimate trusted source such as the victim's bank, the tax collector, the phone company, law enforcement, PayPal, etc. The victim is asked to visit a site that looks like a legitimate web site for the trusted entity where they are usually asked to enter sensitive data such as account passwords, personal ID numbers, bank account numbers etc. that can then be misused by the evil-doer to steal money from or incur debt in the name of the victim. Sometimes the attack will be designed to implant malware on the victim's computer which can then be used to steal more information from the victim or take control of the victim's computer for further use in nefarious schemes.
The goal of "whale phishing" using personal information to create emails or websites targeting senior leaders or executives is to gain access to systems and people within systems.
In spoofing, the attacker tries to obfuscate the actual origins of a message. In the context of network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage. This is often accomplished by changing the header on the message to inject a false origin address or to try to make an application display a false origin address. Sometimes an attacker may send a message with a series of false routing hops prior to their own address and then just pull in the message as it comes to them (and not forward it).
Phishing attacks may employ a variation on spoofing to deceive a user into believing that a message came from a legitimate source or that the site they are about to visit is actually the legitimate site for a legitimate business. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is sometimes referred to as "webpage spoofing". The miscreant/criminal attacker reproduces the appearance and feel of a legitimate site in order to trick the victim into entering sensitive data. The web address for the phishing site may closely resemble the legitimate site or it may include the address of the legitimate site but include code in the address to reroute the traffic to the false website.
To summarize - spoofing seeks to obscure the source of a message while phishing seeks to obscure the destination that the user is going to, so a "phishing and spoofing attack" would combine these two.
1 Which of the following would unlikely be considered Personally Identifiable Information PII?
A relative's business address
It is unclear who first created phishing, as social engineering attacks have been around for many years. A phishing technique was first described in a paper and presentation delivered to the 1987 International HP Users Group, Interex. The exact term phishing was first used in a hacking tool known as AOHell, released in 1994 by "hackers" known as Da Chronic, The Rizzer, and The Squirrel.
On the funny side:
"Actually I created the term phishing, then my wife came out and hollered at me to go out and find a job. But the problem is they were biting really good." -- Anonymous Answers contributor.
Who is winner of coca cola mobile draw?
It depends on your country and the date of the draw.
There are 365 days in a year and 208 countries (206 of them which sell coca-cola).
Phishing is bad. Phishing schemes are ways for unscrupulous people to gain access to personal information about people. They can then use this information for unethical reasons.
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What can people do to protect themselves against phishing?
Never do anything contained IN an email or click on any link in an email. If you are concerned look for the website to use on paperwork you have, or independently go to the official website using a web address that you know works, outside of that contained in the email.
Never provide IDs, Accounts, PINS, Passwords to anybody emailing you, phoning you or coming to see you.
If you get an email or phone call that you were not expecting saying you have won something or offering you some get rich quick opportunity - do not answer it - if it too good to believe - it is a scam.
Never answer unwanted phone calls or emails, and with emails mark them as SPAM then delete them without opening them.
What are two ways you protect yourself against ultraviolet light?
When you are going to be out in the sun for a long period, wear sunblock, and spend some time in the shade when you can.
To choose a sunblock, the SPF rating tells you the multiple for how long you should be able to be in the sun. e.g. SPF 10 multiplies how long you can be in the sun without burning by 10.
This is not an easy number to know any true value for. Every person burns at a different rate, every time you step into the shade for a couple minutes it helps prolong this time, and how direct the sun is, as well as many other factors can lengthen or shorten how long it will take to burn.
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's a good example of phishing emails?
You might receive an email that looks like it was sent by PayPal. The email might say that you need to click on a link to verify your PayPal account. If you don’t? The email says that your PayPal account will be shut down.
Here’s an example of a PayPal phishing email.
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What impact does phishing have?
Phishing affect your privacy online from denial of access to email to substantial financial loss. This style of identify theft is becoming more popular, because of the readiness with which unsuspecting people often divulge personal information to phishers, including credit card number, social security numbers, and mothers' maiden names. The theft stole your privacy thing from your internet. There are also fears that identity thieves can add such information to the knowledge they gain simply by accessing public records. Once this information is acquired, the phishers may use a person's details to create fake accounts in a victim's name. They can then ruin the victims' credit, or even deny the victims access to their own accounts.
How do you stop your fear of looking into someone's eyes?
Well, I used to have trouble looking into people's eyes too, but I'm still improving it by forcing myself to do it. You can try to look yourself in the eyes in the mirror and try other people later. Hope this helps!
Just think of it as an etiquette lesson, as it is rude not to give someone your eyes when speaking or being spoken to. If you wear glasses, take them off so you can't see the other person very well . This is how I conquered my first public-speaking class .
What steps shoild you take to prevent becoming a victim of a phishing scam?
Notify the proper authorities.
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.
What are the recommended password guidelines?
An expiration period should be used for passwords that expire.
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