Internet Phishing
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The document explains phishing as a criminal activity that uses social engineering to deceive individuals into revealing sensitive information like usernames and passwords. It highlights how phishers impersonate trusted entities through emails, often utilizing personal information to lend credibility to their schemes. To protect oneself from phishing, various precautions are suggested, including verifying email sources and employing browser anti-phishing measures.
Internet Phishing
- 1. Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées – Safi 2012 – RefreshMyMind.Com
- 2. What’s Phishing ?1 How to protect yourself ?2 Phishing procedure3 Phishing examples4
- 3. A criminal activity using social engineering techniques (a collection of techniques used to manipulate people into performing actions or divulging confidential information). Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
- 4. It often involves receiving an email from a trusted company, such as eBay, PayPal, the government or your bank. This email may list unauthorized charges, shipments or bills RefreshMyMind.Com
- 5. Often phishers will use your name, address and phone number to make their correspondence appear legitimate. The attackers can get your information from the following sources: Unfortunately, many companies will sell your private information. Private data can be stolen by hackers
- 6. 1 Contacting the company, for subject of the email 3 Verifying information in the email 2 Bypassing the link of the suspected phishing message
- 7. 4 Using SPAM filters 6 Implementing some extensions to the browser 5 Implementing Anti-phishing measures to browsers
- 8. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Scams Mailing-Lists Phishing e-mails
- 13. Phisher has used an image to make it harder for anti-phishing filters to detect by scanning for text commonly used in phishing emails.