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Today we will be learning about how to secure our social networking accounts from malicious phishing attacks..
What is phishing????Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Typically, the messages appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites. Web sites that are frequently spoofed by phishers include PayPal, eBay, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy,Facebook,Orkut,My Space and America Online. A phishing expedition, like the fishing expedition it's named for, is a speculative venture: the phisher puts the lure hoping to fool at least a few of the prey that encounter the bait.
How are we attacked????
It's the most vulnerable kind of attacking a person's mail id and his personal information. They are done with help of fake login pages. Fake login pages are those which exactly look like the login of a social networking or some PayPal site. But every login page has got a redirection link from where the page gets redirected to the server. Then the server checks your id and password,if it matches den you'll be rediercted to your account. This is the general process how we get logged into our social networking account.
Here the hacker makes use of the redirection link to redirect the data of your accpount to his web domain. Then he redirects to some other pages where your id and password will be stored in his domain.
The phishing link looks something like dis .....you can find some icons are missing and the address bar link also
How to protect yourself??????
To protect yourself from this malicious attacks you have to make sure that the one who sends the link is trustworthy one and check the address bar of your browser if it's the direct login page provided by the particular social network or not.
We encourage your comments and feedback regarding article and the blog.....feel free to mail your views and your articles to ghizimofreakers@gmail.com
What is phishing????Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients. Typically, the messages appear to come from well known and trustworthy Web sites. Web sites that are frequently spoofed by phishers include PayPal, eBay, MSN, Yahoo, BestBuy,Facebook,Orkut,My Space and America Online. A phishing expedition, like the fishing expedition it's named for, is a speculative venture: the phisher puts the lure hoping to fool at least a few of the prey that encounter the bait.
How are we attacked????
It's the most vulnerable kind of attacking a person's mail id and his personal information. They are done with help of fake login pages. Fake login pages are those which exactly look like the login of a social networking or some PayPal site. But every login page has got a redirection link from where the page gets redirected to the server. Then the server checks your id and password,if it matches den you'll be rediercted to your account. This is the general process how we get logged into our social networking account.
Here the hacker makes use of the redirection link to redirect the data of your accpount to his web domain. Then he redirects to some other pages where your id and password will be stored in his domain.
The phishing link looks something like dis .....you can find some icons are missing and the address bar link also
How to protect yourself??????
To protect yourself from this malicious attacks you have to make sure that the one who sends the link is trustworthy one and check the address bar of your browser if it's the direct login page provided by the particular social network or not.
We encourage your comments and feedback regarding article and the blog.....feel free to mail your views and your articles to ghizimofreakers@gmail.com
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