What is Phishing? How to be safe from Phishing?
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a type of hacking. It 'a method to acquire sensitive information such as username, password, information, etc. could be Safe banking phishing page as a duplicate of the current page.They look exactly like the real page.But when you enter sensitive information on this page phishing your information is sent to the email address indicated on the phishing page, or you can say you created the phishing page. Phishing is mail everything. Objective of phishing are mostly social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut, etc. The site also banks to acquire data from the website of the credit card, such as Yahoo, Gmail also phished.
Example of phishing:
- E-mail asking you to login to your account to unlock locked.
- Send link to bring sites like Facebook, Yahoo, etc and ask for login.
- Emails that contain some information of interest and asks you to log into your account.
How to be safe from phishing?
- No access your account through the link in the email.
- Go to site assets do not click any links posted on the web. as the link posted on your Facebook wall of a friend or a link provided in the comments or links to any blog site ceratin.
- Check the URL of the website before entering any sensitive information. Because the URL of the phishing page is not equal to the actual URL of the.
- Real page appears as phishing gmail somthing different as gmail.anything.com gmail.com
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