Phishing
Up until today, I wasn't exactly sure what "phishing" was. But now I do. Phishing is copying a trusted site's webpage to weedle out personal information from an unknowing user. Now you are probably saying, "Oh my gosh. I would never fall for such a trick! I'd be smart enough to look around..." blah, blah, blah. See for yourself. If you click here, without reading the URL, examine the webpage closely. (It might be illegible, so click on the photo to soom in.) It will look exactly like a Yahoo! Photos login page. Now read the URL. It's a Geocities webpage. Unless you read the URL beofre looking at the webpage, like I told you not to, then you'd have no way of knowing that it was a fake.
The picture came from Wikipedia, here.
The Wikipedia picture came from the Wikipedia article, here.
-Sanjay Acharya-
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing-
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Cool Stuff #34
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Think that's safe to put on your blog? Some people might be dumb enough to try logging on on that website.
It is just a picture. No one can log on to a picture. Hehe.
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