Phishing
It is a Type of Hacking? In this method a Hacker acquiring sensitive information such as username, password etc.
In Phishing Hacker make a page which like
as Duplicate Page of real one.
Its look exactly similar as the real page.But when user enter personal information on such phishing page his information is send to the E-mail address provided in the phishing page.
Phishing page is mostly send via mail. Target of phishing are mostly social networking sites like facebook.
Also Banks website to acquire credit card details,website like yahoo, gmail are also target of phishing.
IN Phishing, It ask you to login your by giving him personal Information.
Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to deceive users
How to be safe from it?
--> Don't Login through Link provided in email.
--> Check the site first Instead of login phishing page.
--> Phishing Page URL will be Different Then Real on
as gmail.com is real but Phishing Page will be gmail.anything.com
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