WHAT IS PHISHING ?
Phishing is
a hacking technique in which hacker setup a fake website that is
usually clone of a legitimate website and looks genuine to a normal
internet user. Then the hacker tricks (using social engineering) the
target (someone specific or bulk unknown users) to login through this
phishing website so that he (Hacker) could log and steal target’s
password & other important details.
Just
for your information, phishing is a very successful hacking technique
and works even smoothly to hack and trick computer professional and
experts, if done properly. In phishing process, once the innocent user
submits their detail to hacker (i.e. phishing website), victim is
redirected to original website and everything works smoothly (because
phishing website submits collected victim’s username and password to the
original website and victim successfully log-ins and get access to
original website and nothing changes for the victim at that time).
HOW TO STAY SAFE FROM PISHING ATTACKS
- Use popular and updated web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple-Safari, Opera etc. They can easily detect phishing pages and websites (refer to video).
- Use a good antivirus (additionally anti-spyware & anti-adware protection) as they usually help detect and block these phishing pages.
- Before logging into any website’s account don’t forget to check browser’s address bar to confirm the webpage address and website’s location. Note: Important websites uses https:// instead of http:// (‘s’ can be seen as secure) in URL (for eg. https://facebook.com, Google.com , All Banks’ website etc.
- Don’t visit the webpages you don’t trust or at least don’t submit important details such as username, account’s password, PIN and other credentials.
