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Kinds of Phishing Techniques
- By Rickson Martin
- Published 3 January 2009
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One of the common internet scams is Phishing. It is a criminally fraudulent process, where sensitive information about an internet user is acquired. Hacking accounts or passwords to obtain personal information are some of the ways under phishing.
Phishing is either performed through electronic mail or instant messaging. Under this process, users are asked to enter their personal details in a fake website. The worst part about these websites is that they look legitimate and trusting. Once, scammers are able to convince the user to enter their personal information, they are able to access important details about the users. Mainly, these information is used for fraudulent purposes like withdrawing money out of ATM or bank accounts.
Even if you use strong cryptography, there might be chances not to detect such fake websites. Though, phishing techniques have been prevalent on the internet as early as 1987 but it was first recorded in 1996. The term rhymes with the word fishing which means to catch. Similarly, in phishing either financial or personal information is captured of a person, such as passwords.
Here are some of the common phishing techniques used:
Link Manipulation
Links are basically internet addresses that is used to direct a user from one site to another. Many users have a tendency to give their personal information on blogs, digital album sites of friends and
family via emails or instant messages. In phishing, these links are usually misspelled. Since, even a small mistake can cause a big difference and it will lead you to a different site or webpage.
The use of '@' symbol is another tricky method in phishing. Though, these links are disabled in internet explore but other sites like Mozilla Firefox and Opera, only presents warning messages. Besides these, there is also the Internationalized domain names (IDN) spoofing also known as homograph attack.
Filter Evasion
In this method, images are used instead of texts to distract users. In this method, even anti phishing filters finds it difficult to detect the emails.
Website forgery
Certain phishing techniques make use of JavaScript commands to change or modify an address bar. This transfers the user to bank site or phisher's services. At this site, he will extract information from you. Most of the websites developed with flash programs avoids phishing techniques.
Phone Phishing
It is one of the common ways under phishing. Under this technique, a fake call is made to the user and ask for personal account numbers or passwords.
Though, there are many other forms of phishing techniques but these are some off the most common. Some of the developers are trying to develop counter-phishing techniques but smart scammers continue to develop new methods. The best way to avoid phishing techniques is to remain alert and never give your private information to anyone.
Phishing is either performed through electronic mail or instant messaging. Under this process, users are asked to enter their personal details in a fake website. The worst part about these websites is that they look legitimate and trusting. Once, scammers are able to convince the user to enter their personal information, they are able to access important details about the users. Mainly, these information is used for fraudulent purposes like withdrawing money out of ATM or bank accounts.
Even if you use strong cryptography, there might be chances not to detect such fake websites. Though, phishing techniques have been prevalent on the internet as early as 1987 but it was first recorded in 1996. The term rhymes with the word fishing which means to catch. Similarly, in phishing either financial or personal information is captured of a person, such as passwords.
Here are some of the common phishing techniques used:
Link Manipulation
Links are basically internet addresses that is used to direct a user from one site to another. Many users have a tendency to give their personal information on blogs, digital album sites of friends and
The use of '@' symbol is another tricky method in phishing. Though, these links are disabled in internet explore but other sites like Mozilla Firefox and Opera, only presents warning messages. Besides these, there is also the Internationalized domain names (IDN) spoofing also known as homograph attack.
Filter Evasion
In this method, images are used instead of texts to distract users. In this method, even anti phishing filters finds it difficult to detect the emails.
Website forgery
Certain phishing techniques make use of JavaScript commands to change or modify an address bar. This transfers the user to bank site or phisher's services. At this site, he will extract information from you. Most of the websites developed with flash programs avoids phishing techniques.
Phone Phishing
It is one of the common ways under phishing. Under this technique, a fake call is made to the user and ask for personal account numbers or passwords.
Though, there are many other forms of phishing techniques but these are some off the most common. Some of the developers are trying to develop counter-phishing techniques but smart scammers continue to develop new methods. The best way to avoid phishing techniques is to remain alert and never give your private information to anyone.
