Tuesday 28 January 2014

Phishing

What is Phishing ?

                    Phishing is one of the type of hacking . It is a method of acquiring sensitive information such as username, password, bank information etc. Phishing pagecould be saif as an duplicate page of real one. Its look exactly similar as the real page.But when user enter sensitive information on such phishing page his information is send to the E-mail address provided in the phishing page or you can say the one who created that phishing page.

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Phishing page is mostly send via mail. Target of phishing are mostly social networking sites like facebook, orkut etc. Also Banks website to acquirecredit card details,website like yahoo, gmail are also target of phishing.

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