Sunday 11 March 2012

PHISHING

Phishing is a way of stealing informations such as usernames and passwords of any social networking website or auction sites of any particular person. Or Phishing can be used to steal the credit card information.
Basically, Phishing is carried out by sending emails or by sending instant messages
to other people, and the message contains the URL of a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one.

Phishing is one of the hacking technique to hack the social networking websites like facebook.
You can see one example of phishing from HERE

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This post is only for educational purpose. 

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