Comments on: Protection against Phishing http://www.securetoday.net/2008/12/protection-against-phishing/ Protecting your own for the future Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:12:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anand http://www.securetoday.net/2008/12/protection-against-phishing/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Anand Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:50:13 +0000 http://www.securetoday.net/?p=25#comment-3 It is true, Did you know !! .."it comes from the analogy that Internet scammers are using e-mails lures to fish for passwords and financial data from the sea of Internet users". Since hackers have a tenancy to replace "f" with "ph" the term phishing was derived" Phishing is one of the fastest growing problem within internet which creates billions of dollars of damage each year. Any internet user can be at the risk of being phished, having an Instant message-id or email address. Those users who blindly trust "emails from unknown sources" or "receive unknown links in IMs" can become an easy prey to this fraudulent attempts. Motive behind such attempts are to make easy money, access sensitive information, wide-spread marketing, cause damage etc. It is true, Did you know !! ..”it comes from the analogy that Internet scammers are using e-mails lures to fish for passwords and financial data from the sea of Internet users”. Since hackers have a tenancy to replace “f” with “ph” the term phishing was derived”

Phishing is one of the fastest growing problem within internet which creates billions of dollars of damage each year. Any internet user can be at the risk of being phished, having an Instant message-id or email address. Those users who blindly trust “emails from unknown sources” or “receive unknown links in IMs” can become an easy prey to this fraudulent attempts. Motive behind such attempts are to make easy money, access sensitive information, wide-spread marketing, cause damage etc.

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