21 January 2012

Explaining phishing to new-bies

what is phishing ?

According to wikipedia " Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typically carried out by e-mail spoofing or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to deceive users, and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures "


Basic concept of phishing

A hacker create a fake login screen of some of the most popular sites likes gmail, yahoo, facebook.

The secound that a hacker will do is to upload the file to some hosting sites like 3gb.com, 110mb.com or 100webhost.com.

Now the hackers phishing page is uploaded and working fine now he will try to send the address of the phishing page to the victim through email spoofing or try social engineering.

To know how about gmail phishing page click here

NOTE - All this is for awareness and educational purpose. Don't be crazy enough to fool innocents.

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