Sunday, 17 June 2012

WHAT IS PHISHING?








Phishing is a method by which a Hacker send a look like original web page or any form by which he can get your personal information , passwords, financial information and even many more and we don’t know about phishing so we fill the information for example if you want password of gmail of a victim you can send him/her a fake page of gmail look like the original victim will just see the graphical interface that yes it’s a gmail but victim is  totally wrong
  victim never see the address bar and use his/her original username & password to get access to gmail bt when he hit enter after filling username& password then victim will not access the gmail that attempt will be refused and we will get victim’s password.
 Prevention from Phishing.

An  Example of Fake Login Page Below-:





  • ·        Hacker Mostly use the technique Social Engineering  like hacker will Say  that you have won 5000000$ Fill out your information to get the cheque So Be AWARE.
  • ·        When you purchase from online shooping so always use virtual keyboard.
  • ·        Install a better antivirus which detects phishing and warn you to go ahead.
  • ·        Always see https in the address bar when you use online shoping orpayment services.
  • ·        Contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ifccfbi.gov -a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center,if you think you have received a phishing e-mail or have directed to a phishy-looking Web site. 





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