What Is Phishing And How To Be Safe From Phishing ?

What isPhishing?

Phishingis one of the type of . It is a method of acquiring sensitive information such as username, , bank information etc.Phishingpagecould be saif as anduplie pageof rl one. Its look exactly similar as the rl page.But when user enter sensitive information on suchishingpage his information is send to theE-mail addressprovided in thephishingpage or you can say the one who crted thatphishingpage.Phishingpage is mostly send via mail. Target ofphishingare mostlysocial networking sites like facebook, orkut etc. Also Banks website to acquirecredit carddetails,website like yahoo, gmail are also target ofphishing.



Example ofPhishing scams:
Emailasking you to login to your locked account to unlock it.Emailcarrying a Link to sites like Facebook,yahoo etc and asking you to Login.Emails containing some Information of your Interest and asking you to Login toYour Account.
How to be safe fromphishing?
Never login to any ofyour accountthrough link provided in theEmail.Go to rl website dont click on any link posted anywhere. such as link posted on yourfacebook wallby friend or link provided in comments or link to ceratin website on anyblog.Check the URL of website before entering any sensitive information. Because the URL ofphishingpage is not same as the URL of rl one.Rl gmail page looks likegmail.comwhilephishinglooks different somthing likegmail.anything.com