Fishing = Phishing??? (o.O)??
PHISHING is pronounce like FISHING, however, it is not some relax, good like fishing.
Phishing is a broadly launched social engineering attack in which an electronic identity is misrepresented in an attempt to trick individuals into revealing credentials. In other word, phishing is THEFT.
PHISHING =
Phishing is a technique used to gain others' personal information for purpose of identity theft using fraudulent phone call, website and e-mail message that sent by a legitimate firm.
How does a phishing email looks like?
As shown in the picture, a phishing email can be identified by looking in few ways. First, there is always some grammar error, secondly, there must be a threat contain in email and usually they will said that they are from some popular company like bank, government or some other well known website.
How can we as a internet user protect ourselves from phishing?
There are few suggested ways for us to learn.
1. Be skeptical
Internet is a place where everything can be virtual, whereby there is nothing real online. People pretend that they are not who they are in real life, doing everything that they are not going to do in real life via internet. Hence, as a internet user, we have to be skeptical. Never trust anything easily even the email or the private message is sent by some of your close friend because their account might be hacked. Besides, if the company send you an email with threat and you really worry about it, do call to the office of that particular company to double confirm the situation. Never think that we will never hurt in internet since it is virtual. Yes, Internet is virtual, yet people are real. Analyze everything clearly and carefully to prevent ourselves get trapped.
2. Using website to warn us
Latest version of browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome is now come with built in phishing protection. We can protect ourselves by surfing internet via these browsers. These browsers will analyze web sites and compare them against known or
suspected phishing sites and warn you if the site you are visiting may
be malicious or illegitimate.
3. Use the keypad, not the mouse
If you really afraid of the threats that stated in email, do type in the URL by ourselves instead of clicking it direct;y with the mouse. We cannot guarantee that the link provided in email is real one, so instead of taking risk by clicking with mouse, please use your keypad and type the URL of the particular company manually.
4.Look for the lock
Valid sites that use encryption to
securely transfer sensitive information are characterized by a lock on
the bottom right of your browser window, NOT your web page. They also
have addresses that begin with https:// instead of the usual http://. Do observe carefully.
5. Different is the keyword here
Use DIFFERENT passwords
for different sites; I know it’s tough task as most
functions of the brain are being passed on to technology, but this is a
good way to prevent phishers from getting at all your sensitive
transactions, even if they’ve managed to compromise one.
The five ways mentioned can be a good ways for us to protect ourselves from phishing threat. Do remember, Do not trust what you see online. Do not trust what you think it is true. Pick up phone and make a call to confirm is always the best way.
Here are some others websites that provide opinion on how to protect ourselves from phishing.
1) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505144_162-57388953/5-ways-to-protect-yourself-from-phishing-attacks/
2) http://www.fraudwatchinternational.com/phishing-fraud/phishing-protection/
3) http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/phishing.htm
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