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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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Torrent Privacy looks like a VPN Service like PeerGuardian but the Terms of Service say you can't use it for any illegal activity.
And unlike the post some answered below. All torrent sites are legit. Just not all the download links you click.
"No torrent website is "legit", they will all give you viruses and the time it will take you to remove those it is well worth buying whatever you would download yourself"
An attempt to defraud or obtain confidential information by posing as a legitimate company is called phishing. Rarely, this practice has also been known as brand spoofing.
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".
What kind of tools do phishers use?
Successful phishers will use social engineering, human nature and programming tools.
Will Smackdown ever be as good as it was in 2003?
Not at the rate it's going. Both RAW and Smackdown are in severe need of better storylines! what was so great about 2003? brock? i thought 1999 and 2001 were smackdowns best years.
One of the most common methods of phishing occurs over email. Here's how it works:
A fraudster sends you an email that appears to come from a reputable company. The email explains that you need to log in to your account (for a seemingly valid reason) and provides a convenient link. Once you click the link, you are taken to a website so you can log in. That website looks exactly like the real thing, but it isn't.
The fraudster has replicated the website, and if you log in they will have your user name and password. This allows them to log in to your real account, and then they will have access to any private information you have stored (credit card numbers, etc.)
You can avoid this type of phishing scam by always entering the complete URL of any website you visit before logging in. Don't trust an email that asks you to click a link and log in to your account - just delete them.
Another method of phishing is called Tabnabbing. This is a clever scam that begins when you inadvertently download a third party script. Once this script is active on your computer, it can literally take control of an inactive browser tab (most people have several tabs open while Surfing the web) and transform the screen into something that looks exactly like a website you probably use (perhaps an email account, bank account, etc.) regularly.
Tabnabbers hope you will assume that you were using this website and your session timed out. If you log in to their replica site, they will have your user name and password. Like email phishing scams, the best way to avoid tabnabbing is to always type in the complete URL of any website you visit before you log in.
The methods or techniques of phishing include Trojan Hosts, instant messaging, key loggers, link manipulation, session hacking, content injection, and many others.
Can you get in trouble with the law for using false pictures on dating websites?
it's not a crime, but 1. the person whose picture you are using can sue you if they find out you are using their picture without their permission, and 2. why would you do that anyway? if your relationship starts out with a lie it will never last, and when you meet this person and they see you don't look like your picture they are probably going to leave you for lying to them. trust is important, don't lie, just use your own picture. why would you want somebody to like "you" when you're not even the person in the picture? it's like they don't really like you.
A scam, or more precisely - "phishing". The scammers "phish" (the connotation to "fishing" is very correct) for users who will "take the bhait" and visit the scammers' web service, usually made to look indentical to that of the legitimate business they're trying to appear to be, and urge the confused user to enter his real information into their prepared web site.
That information is then commonly used to commit crimes, including monetary theft and identity hijacking/theft.
The easiest way to check if a message is a scam is to verify where it's trying to lead you to, and most importantly, to check on the actual business' web page for any attention notices. If that fails, due dilligence would ask for checking if the exact same web page (the same address and all) can be accessed through normal browsing on the business' web site. If these things are missing or problematic, a scam is very likely.
And don't worry about your details - if it's a bank, or some other large business, they will most likely notify you by other means eventually, if the threat is legitimate. E-mail is not the most urgent communication channel (phone is much faster), and besides, if an account is suspect, it will first and foremost be suspended, and the owner will be called in to personally clear things up - an e-mail is insufficient for that.
Also remember that most (some 99.9% of) services will never ask you for your password. They may ask for an answer to a security quesiton, or may ask you to login to your account and input a special code somewhere in there to verify your identity, but sending passwords through unencrypted e-mails is at least very, very foolish.
What are the negative effects of cyber bulling?
There are many negative effects of cyber bulling. Like making the people have low self-esteem and sense of security, making them loss interest in school, health and can cause suicidal thoughts.
What are the penalties of phishing?
You can be jailed, fined at a high cost, or both,+++you will be banned from using the internet.
What are the three steps in conducting an attack of a building?
Isolate, seize a foothold, and clear a building.
the company is still preying on the gullible and the eternal optimist. spread the word to friends and neighbors. see the report at:
http://www.bbb.org/dallas/business-reviews/sweepstakes/emerson-publishing-inc-in-dallas-tx-37006684
The solicitation, which requests that consumers return a "claim form" along with $5, offers to sell a report that lists national sweepstakes operated by other, third-party, companies and the prizes to be awarded in those sweepstakes. The offer is not clear and conspicuous.
As of August 29, 2008, Emerson Publishing agreed to discontinue some advertisements, but refused to fully cooperate with the BBB by modifying all of its advertisements to adhere to the BBB Code of Advertising.
What arwe the most popular methods of getting rid of computer viruses?
Well their are many different kinds of viruses but most all go down by AVG- anti virus
Keylogger (also called keystroke logger) is a program on your computer or mobile that logs the keystrokes you type.
There are two types: hardware keyloggers and software keyloggers. When we talk about keyloggers, we usually refer to software keylogger.
Some software keyloggers are bundled with other programs, which can help themselves be installed to the computer without people knowing. They are spyware and dangerous for online personal information.
Some other software keyloggers are independent applications which need manually installation and even admin password to install onto your computer. They are normally used as parental monitoring software or employee monitoring software.
I believe it is "Phishing"
From wikipedia:
"Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail or instant messaging,[1] and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one."
