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    Institute of Engineering & Technology, Alwar

    PHISHING
    Submitted toMs. Sapna Kumari
    Lecturer

    Submitted ByRaunak Jain


    CSE B Batch
    11EIACS085

    What is Phishing?
    Phishing Basics
    How they Attack?
    How to Detect?
    Damage caused by phishing.
    How to avoid Phishing
    Conclusion.
    Source of Information.
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    What is Phishing???
    Phishing is a way of fraudulently acquiring sensitive
    information using social engineering and technical subterfuge.
    It tries to trick users with official-looking messages

    Credit card
    Bank account
    eBay
    Paypal

    Some phishing e-mails also contain malicious or unwanted


    software that can track your activities or slow your computer.

    Phishing Basics
    Pronounced "fishing
    The word has its Origin from two words Password
    Harvesting or fishing for Passwords
    Phishing is an online form of pretexting, a kind of deception in
    which an attacker pretends to be someone else in order to
    obtain sensitive information from the victim
    Also known as brand spoofing.
    Phishers are phishing artists.

    How They ATTACK..


    Most attacks of phishing use some form of technical deception
    designed to make a link in an email appear to belong to the
    spoofed organization.
    Misspelled URLs or the use of subdomains are common tricks
    used by phishers, such as this example URL,
    http://www.maybank.home.com/.
    One method of spoofing links used web addresses containing
    the @ symbol, which were used to include a username and
    password in a web URL.

    How TO DETECT..
    It is actually very noticeable. You will see misspelled URLs.
    One way seeing it is discovering @ in the web addresses e.g.
    http://www.hotmail.com@members.com.
    Some web browsers such as Mozilla and Internet Explorer has
    closed this off while Opera gives a warning and an option to
    get off the website.
    In another popular method of phishing, an attacker uses a bank
    or other services website scripts on the victim.
    These types of attack known as cross-site scripting.

    Damage caused by phishing.


    The damage caused by phishing ranges from loss of access to
    email to substantial financial loss.
    This style of identity theft is becoming more popular, because
    of the ease with which unsuspecting people often divulge
    personal information to phishers, including credit card
    numbers, social security numbers, and mothers maiden
    names.
    There are also fears that identity thieves can obtain some such
    information simply by accessing public records.
    Once they have the information they need and want, the
    phishers will use that persons detail to create fake accounts
    using the victims name, using up a persons credit, or even
    prevent the victim from accessing to their own accounts

    How to avoid Phishing


    DONT CLICK THE LINK
    Type the site name in your browser (such as www.paypal.com)

    Never send sensitive account information by e-mail


    Account numbers, SSN, passwords

    Never give any password out to anyone.


    Verify any person who contacts you (phone or email).
    If someone calls you on a sensitive topic, thank them, hang up
    and call them back using a number that you know is correct,
    like from your credit card or statement.

    Conclusion..
    Phishing emails are only a small aspect of the
    overall phishing economy and until now, the
    only aspect seen by the most people. The
    phishing economy is a decentralized and self
    organized social network of merchants and
    consumers governed by laws of supply and
    demand. This clearer picture of the landscape,
    the players, and insight into phishing
    operations will hopefully assist in the fight
    against online fraud.
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    Source Of Information

    www.wikipedia.org
    www.antiphishing.org
    www.google.com
    www.webopedia.com
    www.computerworld.com
    www.yahoo.com
    www.honeynet.org
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    Thanks

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