Phishing is an attempt to steal user's personal information such as username, password, credit card number etc. The main idea of such attack is that the attacker pretends to be a trusted web-site which asks the user to re-enter the personal information and in this way steels it.
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Effectiveness of Security Images
Do security images such as those presented upon logging into banks provide any tangible security benefits, or are they mostly theater?
Per my understanding, if somebody is phishing your users, it's ...
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“Phishing” red flags and countermeasures
Given the recent spate of intrusions into various networks which have included compromise of subscriber identity and contact information, I figured it would be good for us to have a thread on how to ...
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Are address bars unphishable?
I've taken, out of curiosity, the Phishing Quiz by OpenDNS that tries to teach the general public about detecting phishing:
Ever wonder how good you are at telling the difference between a ...
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Is a mobile app more secure for mobile use than the “normal” website?
An untrained end user who uses a mobile web browser is vulnerable to phishing and can't easily verify the the authenticity (or security) of a website among other issues. Also, it is very easy to ...
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Is SiteKey a valid defense against Phishing?
As described here, some banks use a SiteKey mechanism in an attempt to provide a defense against phishing. The comments and answers indicate some issues with this approach, but that question wasn't ...
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Security concern to implement a web based remote desktop
I am implementing a web based remote desktop application.Through this application client can connect to the server and can access the server using JSP/Servlet Java robot class.
I can configure the ...
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Risks of giving developers admin rights to their own PCs
I need to convince my internal IT department to give my new team of developers admin rights to our own PCs. They seem to think this will create some security risk to the network. Can anyone explain ...
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What is this authentication method/approach called?
Background: I want to implement something like this in our websites, and I'm looking for advice and possibly APIs that allow this out of the box rather than re-inventing the wheel, but I can't even ...
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Phishing virus found on server
I recently had a call from BELL concerning a virus on our Linux ( Debian ) Server. Apparently Google emailed our client about an Italian Database found on our server that was doing phishing. They ...
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Can a man engaged in phishing be prosecuted if I know his IP?
My familiar received some emails from a man she meets at dating site. The man sent her his photos by email. In them he made some attempts that looked like phishing so I decided to lookup more ...
