Phishing is THEFT, which is the technique use to steal the personal identity and financial credentials such as credit card number, username or passwords. The process is using the combination of social engineering and technical subterfuge to gain the personal information for illegal purposes via e-mail and instant messages.
The more recent phishing is targeted on the e-bank user, online payment services and e-mail. The phishing will be send the messages or e-mail to the particular person that the consequences of if they fail to update their personal information or account immediately then their acco
unt will be in suspension. The Paypal, eBay and bank users will be the victims of phishing. The damages cause by the phishing is that the victims may incur the financial loss due to denial of access to the email.There are three methods use to prevent the phishing such are block the site access, prevent spam entry and no cost phishing prevention. Block site access is the filtering and firewall prevents inbound and outbound traffic to site like spyware that can be preventing from phishing attacks.The Anti-Spam software can be use to analyses the mail contents and denial the delete the phishing mail. This type of software may stop most of the pubshing mail by spam filtering before it reaches to the users.The latest anti-phishing is that besides entry the passwords the user is require to choose the images or features to have the mutual authentication. Some of the cases in bank industry in US proved that this method is useful to prevent phishing.
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