Phishing

Hacking – Phishing 2.1 Introduction to Phishing Phishing is defined as the attempt to obtain personal information such as usernames and passwords, credit card numbers, PINS, and other sensitive information. In this case, the creator will send out a legitimate looking email in disguise as any big and trustworthy company. The words phishing itself sounds like ‘fishing’ because of their similar concepts that is used. A bait is used in the attempt to catch a victim like for fishing, fisherman will use

Out of various cybercrimes, one of the most popular cybercrime today is Phishing. Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money) by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication [1].Phishing is usually

University XYZ, Phishing, & Legal Aspects 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. In legal

Cyber-Heist from Russian Security Firm The Crime Overview of Incident Being touted as the 'new era of cyber crime', advanced phishing attacks recently were responsible for stealing as much as $1 billion from over 100 banks worldwide. [1] In an attack that took place in the shadows of the networks of their victims over more than 2 years, this display of how dangerous these phishing techniques are becomes very apparent. In previous years, it was always thought that the easiest way for a hacker to steal

1. Phishing 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. If phishing attack KUPTM server, the criminal will be able to know everything about

INTRODUCTION: Phishing is a social engineering luring technique, in which an attacker aims to steal sensitive information such as online banking passwords and credit card information from users. Phishing is generally carried over electronic communications such as email or instant messaging. A replica of the legitimate site is created and the users are directed to the phishing pages where it required for the personal information. In the past few years we have seen an increase in semantic attacks.

I. Executive Summary This report gathers information and wide understanding of what phishing attack is all about. Phishing is an attack to obtain personal and sensitive information of a particular person from a computer. A thorough understanding of this kind of attack in a computer is of much importance especially to IT Managers. It will give them wide understanding upon developing an Information System Strategic Plan for a company they are working for in gaining competitive advantage in the industry

PHISHING LITERATURE REVIEW Abstract With the beginning of internet, various online attacks have been increased and among them, the most popular attack is phishing. Phishing is an online security attack where the hacker targets in achieving sensitive information like passwords, credit card information etc. from the users by making them to believe what they see is what it is. It is the combination of social engineering and technical methods to convince the user to reveal their personal data. The paper

techniques were used including phishing schemes. 2. Summary of social engineering 3. The common schemes that criminals use to obtain personal and corporate information. This should be subsection into • Electronic Communications • Personal Communication 4. The basic protocols and policies that you can implement to avoid these threats. In addition, create a phishing e-mail message to show how dangerous, a trained person can be. 5. Create a two-page report containing a sample phishing e-mail sample message.

1. Introduction Phishing is type of computer attack that communicates through messages to humans via email or web page to perform certain actions for the attacker’s benefits. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to financial gain identity thefts Phishers are targeting the customers of banks and online payment services, Emails. 2. Rationale and significance of the study Social networking sites are now a prime target of phishing. the personal details in such sites