Jun 9, 2011

Phishing Exposed!

Do you ever heard PHISHING?


Well, Phishing is a popular method to capture personal data such as passwords, transaction numbers and credit card details.


It's little bit easy to do, so many people doing that dumb things. I admit i know the basic HTML phishing but I'm not using it to hack people password..I just want you to know that phishing site is scattered all over the internet so be careful and avoid being hooked!


Here some tips before logging your account..


1. Don’t click on links within emails that ask for your personal informations...


2. Check 1st the URL if that's the right one.
(Ex. http://www.facebo0k.com)
see the example above..phisher is tweaking the URL that same as the original..as you can see, they used "0" for letter "o" so that users can't notice easily..


3. Check if the website look different..


4. Your Brain :D


To sum it all up. People like you and me will most likely detect fake websites and act accordingly. Normal users have a hard time identifying those websites and are the main phishing targets. They don´t know about the possibilities and simply assume that everything is alright.


Maybe because they are lazy, maybe because they do not want to spend time learning computer stuff. Who knows. Phishing will stop if the majority of users are educated and know how to handle computers.

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