What is Phishing ?

Defination of Phishing :

Phishing is a technique or process in which the hacker makes the duplicate webpage of the existing website in order to get your personal information.

Pronounced like fishing, phishing is a term used to describe a malicious individual or group of individuals who scam users. Phishing, also referred to as brand spoofing or carding,

In other words Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and sometimes, indirectly, money).

What is Phishing

Phishing or cloning is same.

Hackers could create a clone of a website and tell you to enter personal information, which is then emailed to them. So one can conclude that Phishing is a hacking process in which victims personal data is being captured by the hacker.

How to identify a phishing E-mail or Website ?

Spelling and grammar - Improper spelling and grammar are almost always a dead giveaway. Look for obvious errors.

Link to a fake web site - like www.facebook.com is original website but www.face-book.com may be a fake website which will look same as facebook homepage and will steal your id and password for future use.

No mention of account information - no information about the email sender.Be very careful about not replying to any such spam mails that ask you to confirm or update any information about your account.

Never ever send your confidential information about your account in an email.

The Purpose of Phishing

As stated earlier hacker Phishes a website in order to steal your online identity or your personal confidential Data like ID, Password, Credit Card Details or your personal mobile no.

Also many Hacker used phishing technique in order to access your social accounts like Facebook, Twitter , Google, Bank Website or any other.

Use browsers to avoid Phishing:

Microsoft's IE7 browser, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Safari 3.2, and Opera all contain this type of anti-phishing measure in order to safeguard the user from Phishing websites.