How do phishers fish?

Image via Wikipedia As per legal authorities, phishing is making a replica of a legitimate web-page on the Internet, and conning people into providing sensitive information. Phishing can be done by lone phishers or they can operate in groups. The first step of a phishing attack is an email. The email will have fake contents. The reader of the email is enticed to a web page, and then enter personal details. Spamming is easy. The phisher can send millions of spam email with one single mouse click. There is not much effort involved here. By ways of spamming, phishers reach millions of … [Read more...]