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Phishing: What is it and how to prevent it?
'Phishing' messages have grown increasingly common online. Phishing is a scam technique used to solicit user's credit card information, social security numbers, and other vital data. "Phishing messages usually take the form of fake notifications from banks, providers, e-pay systems and other organizations. The notification will try to encourage a recipient, for one reason or another, to urgently enter/update their personal data. Such excuses usually relate to loss of data, system breakdown, etc." (What is phishing, 2012, Secure List). These messages may be sent in a general fashion or to a target base of users. It is not unusual to get a phishing message from, say, Bank of America, even though the recipient has no Bank of America account. The hope is that users who do use BoA will mistake the message for a real notification, open the email, and follow the instructions. Scare techniques prompt the user to enter their data: "if you do not provide your personal...
"Some phishing emails will deliberately misspell key words to bypass SPAM filters, which most people would not recognize when quickly glancing at the subject line" (Phishing email scams, 2012, Fraud Watch International).
Phishers often use photoshopping or other forms of technology to make their correspondence look 'official,' which can catch casual readers off-guard. While the wording and the visuals may be questionable, this may go unnoticed on a first glance. But "the 'quality' of phishing messages is usually very high. A fake site will generally look exactly like the original so that a user will not suspect anything is wrong when they enter their user name and password to access the site" (What is phishing, 2012, Secure List). The fact that 'multitasking' is so common when users are online also is conducive to phishing, as a user may not think twice about why the bank he or she patronized…
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Phishing Problem in Internet Security The number of people browsing the net across the world is increasing with each passing day. There are numerous new internet users each day, and these new users are not aware of the challenges or security issues of the internet. Any online user is vulnerable to numerous security risks like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, hackers, phishing, and pharming. All these are well-documented risks that users face,
This means that you must train employees how to identify various forms of phishing. At the same time, you must implement some kind of security procedures that will place a restriction, on how personal information is distributed. For example, employees could be trained in spotting various kinds of fictitious emails. However, when they run across an email like that is requesting information, there would be a procedure where the
i.e. modifying the domain name system. 7. DNS-Based Phishing ("Pharming"): This offense is based on interference in the domain name searching process by modifying the domain name resolution sending the user to a different IP address. 8. Content-Injection Phishing: The phisher introduces fraudulent content into a legitimate website. 9. Data Theft: Malicious code that collects sensitive information stored within the machines in which it is installed. 10. Man-in-the-Middle Phishing: The phisher takes a
Pharmers now not only small local servers operated by Internet service providers (ISP) but they also target the 13 servers on which all other DNS servers depend. Implications Businesses & Large Organizations: Among large scale businesses that get affected includes the financial sector other than individuals. Electronic banking services have been greatly affected by these criminals who are euphemistically called hackers or crackers who conduct phishing or pharming. They not only
As such, people that use high amounts of bandwidth should be on the up and need to be paying for any extra bandwidth they use. Indeed, many ISP's put hard data caps on data usage and punish (if not throttle) people that are abusive. In the age of Netflix, figuring out what is what can be hard but drilling down to the network traffic in question can clarify that. However,
Some programs are even able to track keystrokes and take snapshots of computer screens, allowing criminals even more information, such as credit card numbers and usernames (Bahl, 219). While the obtaining of information through fraud is a problem related to Internet activity, there are other concerns with privacy that are still considered legal. For example, a company can obtain your personal information from transactions, and legally sell that information to