What is phishing?

What is phishing?
Phishing is an attempt by the sender to have the receiver of the email to release their personal information i.e the attacker lures the victims to give some confidential information.

Why phishing?

There are many password cracking tools that are coming and going into/from the market. But phishing is the most effecient method to steal confidential information like,

passwords

Credit card numbers

Bank account numbers

How phishing works?

It works just like normal fishing.

A fisherman generally throws a bait into the water to lure the fish. Then a fish comes to take the food feeling that it is legitimate. When it bites the bait,it will be caught by the hook.Now the fisherman pulls out the fish.

In the same way, the hacker sends a fake login page to the victim. The victim thinks that it is a legitimate one and enters his confidential information.Now the data will be with the hacker.

How to protect ourselves from phishing?

Don’t use links

Be suspicious of any e-mail with urgent requests

using secured websites

Using efficient browsers

Using Antivirus or internet security softwares.

If you have any doubts or suggestions, just leave a comment.

I will show how to hack a gmail password using phishing in my next article.