Archive for August, 2009

Phishing is a real threat to the modern civilization as these days we are global citizens and we need to operate and manage our business irrespective of the geographic location or the position that we are in at that particular point of time. Now you get no points for guessing what makes that possible. Yes internet. Internet is what that makes this magic happen.

When personal and financial information are extracted from a person over the internet luring them and faking others name it is termed as phishing. This information may be used to withdraw money or property without the consent of the actual owner. These hacking websites could be easily recognized by following certain norms.

These sites often send pop ups to the browsers and asks personal and financial information.

A kind of internet treachery is known as phishing. It lures internet users to give away personal and financial information to the hacking websites. These websites imitate the trustworthy and familiar websites of the user and generally send spam emails and pop messages o extract information. The financial information extracted could be used to withdraw money from bank account of the user in unauthorized transactions.

Even Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) using strong cryptography could not restrict these hackers to sending such messages.

In this age of completely networked environment where individuals and corporates wholly depend on their computer system, internet security and data privacy has become a major issue. One of the significant threats is the phishing syndrome which has affected millions of individuals and corporates around the world. It is a program created by hackers for seeking financial and personal information from the users. This is usually done by sending spam messages and pop ups within browsers.

Phishing websites fake original ones to extract useful personal and financial information from the users. Persons who enter this type of information over the internet are susceptible to such attacks. This kind of fraud generally relates to the banking and credit card related queries embedded in email messages and pp ups in browsers. The link takes this information to the hacking site instead of the original one it is faking.

Phishing is a form of trick or treachery used by the hackers to derive personal and financial information from the users over the internet or telephone. This information could be used for robbing the users of their property or money by unauthorized and illegal transactions in the users’ name. The phishing sites generally send spasm and pop ups and fake original websites to lure the customers of such original sites to enter such information.