Phishing

Phishing is another type of the most common computer crime, this type of computer crime is old school crime, it is an attempt to gather sensitive information by masquerading a trust website. The following website screen cut is high quality masquerading facebook website:

Firstly, from above picture, the URL is fake, because the real facebook does not use facebook-team.com as their URL, it uses facebook.com. Secondly, facebook does not acquire users’ real email password. Therefore, leave this page for sure, do not provide any information to this kind of website, must be aware.

There are certain thing should be aware for a website:

1.   URL for the website

2.   Content of the website, if one website acquire user’s outside of this website account, leave the website

3.   Never enter personal information in pop-ups.

4.   Never enter personal information in unsecured website

Phishing can also be in other form to acquire users information. Firstly, email can be one of the ways to spread phishing. Secondly, face time also become a type of phishing, some offenders will record users video or voice to acquire information.

Here are some solutions to prevent been phishing:

·         Turn on against unrecognized email option

·         Communicate personal information only on phone or secured websites

·         Click on unknown links are highly dangerous

·         Do not communicate personal information or financial information via email

·         Install anti-viruses, spam filter

·         Check online banking and other financial account statements