Phishing Is A Social Engineering Luring Technique

Phishing is process of acquiring personal information such as credit card details, usernames and passwords by masquerading as a trustworthy website. Phishing gets its name from the word fishing as the phishers hope that the victim “bites” the “bait” by clicking on a malicious link. There are three main types of phishing, which are: Spear phishing, Clone

There are many types of Cyber Crimes. The most common Cyber Crimes are: Hacking, Theft, Cyber Stalking, Identity Theft, Malicious Software and Child Soliciting and Abuse.

As value customers of the Anthem, Inc. we believe it is important to keep each one of you informed of any incident that might affect your business with us. Your privacy and security is our priority for the reason Anthem, Inc. would like to inform our customers of a recent phishing attack. Unfortunately, we have experienced similar attacks in the past which led many of the employees and customers’ data exposed to hackers. Even though this is a serious matter for the company and the customers it is important for us to make our customers aware that phishing attacks are common and they cause huge losses to both the customers and the companies (Wright et al., 2014). Our most recent attack took place on April 2014 and it affected about 80 million identifiable data stolen via phishing emails. The

Phishing is an attempt to acquire personal information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity through an electronic communication. [ Compl. ¶ 28, ECF No. 1.]

This study conducted an experiment which involved 400 plus participants to evaluate the accuracy of anti-phishing tools on a user’s ability to avoid phishing attacks. The experiment participants were either given a low or high accuracy tool and asked to make decisions on several phishing websites. The study found that the users who used the high accuracy tool performed better than the users using the low accuracy tool in terms of avoiding phishing attacks. Further, users of the high accuracy tool ignored

Since our sponsor university is located in Massachusetts, where there is no direct single state law on anti-phishing. It is important to understand legal phishing definition, and laws applicable if University XYZ faces any phishing attack. In this section, apart from explaining federal statute and related punishment for phishing attack, details are given on government agencies that University XYZ can approach for phishing attack investigation.

The internet has brought upon a new revolution of global interconnection where contacting someone on the other side of the world is just a click away, but with this international phenomenon comes an increased susceptibility with unfamiliar technology. Internet crime is compiled of all non-physical crime with the aid of a computer. Although broad in definition internet crimes are largely composed of acts such as cyber fraud, ‘phishing’ (username and password hacking), cyber stalking and hacking. Internet crime does not pose an overwhelming issue in society in terms of its

A firsthand look at a case study is conducted where phony spam messages are sent to arbitrary email addresses. Visitor count is recorded and the collected information is analyzed and investigated. Results show that 70% of anonymous users across the world use outdated browsers making them more susceptible to spam.

The phishing attack is an easy-protect attack method but may cause many losses when it success. All staffs of IT department of University XYZ have the responsibility to fight against it for preventing the loss of themselves and public sources. Remember to keep eyes on every suspect email. There are specific rules every staffs should follow with.

Data breach is a topic that plagues the daily news and whether it presents itself in the form of a large company security breach or a case of identity theft in town, people are aware of their surroundings and are cognizant of the danger that hackers pose. Thus, when we are doing things like creating a new account with a website online, we are actively choosing to ignore the potential risks that surround us because creating a complex password and changing it every so often becomes too difficult. Just like Herley’s phishing example that was mentioned earlier in this paper, the time it would take to detect phishing websites and applying our knowledge to help prevent security breaches would help us save less than a dollar per year. I believe that is a risk many are willing to take, especially if it helps make our online experience that much more enjoyable and

The tendency of internet users to instantly assume website credibility, provides even the most unskilled hackers an opportunity to gain unauthorized access to someone’s computer in the world today. Often, malicious or ill-intended websites are designed in such as way that visitors perceive as trustworthy, but in the background are set up as platforms for phishing or to intentionally antagonizing users to get a reaction, also known as internet “trolling”. To the untrained user, the signs of a hoax website are often unclear. However, SomaliCruises.com, a website advertising cruises to Somalia in hopes of being hijacked and fighting Somalian pirates, provides an excellent case study of what a hoax website might look like. Specifically, Somali Cruises uses precise formatting and a friendly tone to make a good initial impression, but reveals its status as a hoax through subtle elements like sketchy advertisements,

Phishing scams are typically fraud email messages appearing to come from legitimate enterprises (e.g., your university, your Internet service provider, your bank). These messages usually direct you to a spoofed website or otherwise get you to divulge private information (e.g., passphrase, credit card, or other account updates). The criminals then use this private information to commit identity theft.

Phishing is a kind of social engineering attack in which criminals use spoofed emails to trick people into sharing sensitive information or installing malware on their computers. Victims perceive these emails as associated with a trusted brand, while in reality they are the work of con artists. Rather than directly targeting the systems people use, phishing attacks target the people using those systems. Phishing cleverly circumvents the vast majority of an organization's security measures. It doesn't matter how many firewalls, encryption software, certificates, and two-factor authentication mechanisms an organization has if the person behind the keyboard falls for a phish. On the surface, phishing attacks may seem to be a variant of spam.

It could be said that Phishing and Email scams are something that every Internet user has to face at some point, probably almost on a daily basis. Over the last several years phishing and email scams have increased tremendously, promising to enrich the recipient with just a couple clicks and some personal information. Phishing always spikes with holiday shopping, celebrity scandals, weather disasters and big sporting events (Bond, 2011). Phishing scams generally use fear and expectations. It is almost unimaginable that there might be an Internet user with an email address that hasn’t received an email promising large sums of money from a Nigerian Prince. As mentioned in other sections of this project, the goal is have consumers enticed into revealing their personal identification and financial information on fraudulent websites, also known as spoofed websites (Brody, Mulig, Kimball, 2007). As time has gone on since these scams began appearing on the Internet, the scammers have become more sophisticated. Emails appear more legitimate, appearing to be from sources like the users bank, from the IRS and many other financial entities. In this section we are going to discuss the various ways to discover these scams and what steps should be taken to prevent falling victim to these scams.

The increasing volume and sophistication of cyber security threats including targeted data theft, phishing scams and other online vulnerabilities demand that we remain vigilant about securing our systems and information.