Download - Phishing attacks ppt
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
Phishing is a way of fraudulently acquiring sensitive information using social engineering and technical subterfuge.
It tries to trick users with official-looking messages◦ Credit card ◦ Bank account◦ eBay◦ Paypal
Some phishing e-mails also contain malicious or unwantedsoftware that can track your activities or slow your computer
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.
1) Detect and block the phishing Web sites in time
2) Enhance the security of the web sites3) Block the phishing e-mails by various spam
filters4) Install online anti-phishing software in
user’s computers
i)Classification of the hyperlinks in the phishing e-mails
ii) Link guard algorithmIii)Link guard implemented clientIv) Feasibility study
DON’T CLICK THE LINK◦ Type the site name in your browser (such as
www.paypal.com) Never send sensitive account information
by e-mail◦ Account numbers, SSN, passwords
Never give any password out to anyone Verify any person who contacts you
(phone or email). ◦ If someone calls you on a sensitive topic, thank
them, hang up and call them back using a number that you know is correct, like from your credit card or statement.
Dear Valued Member,
According to our terms of services, you will have to confirm your e-mail by the following link, or your account will be suspended for security reasons.
http://www.uc.edu/[email protected]
After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal.
Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Sincerely, Uc Abuse Department
http://www.nbmd.cn/Confirmation_Sheet.pif
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
Operating System : Windows XP/2000 Language : Java (J2sdk1.6.0)Database : Oracle 10g
TECHNOLOGIES USED :• JSP•Servlets•Apache Tomcat 5.5
•Hard disk : 20 GB and above•RAM : 256 MB and above•Processor speed : 1.6 GHz and above
