20-07-2013, 12:51 PM
PHISHING BASICS
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Pronounced "fishing“
The word has its Origin from two words “Password Harvesting” or fishing for Passwords
Phishing is an online form of pretexting, a kind of deception in which an attacker pretends to be someone else in order to obtain sensitive information from the victim
Also known as "brand spoofing“
Phishers are phishing artists
COMPARISON TO SPAM
The purpose of a phishing message is to acquire sensitive information about a user. For doing so the message needs to deceive the intended recipient.
So it doesn’t contains any useful information and hence falls under the category of spam.
A spam message tries to sell a product or service, whereas phishing message needs to look like it is from a legitimate organization.
Techniques applied to spam message cant be applied naively to phishing messages.