Phishing or Fishing??

Phishing or Fishing??

It is kinda irritating to received mail from a person or organization that claim to be another person or organization. BUT, for those who received and actually believe the sender, the damaged is gonna be more then just being irritated.

“Phishing” that sound like “Fishing” is the act of pretending/ impersonating to be someone or some organizations with the intention of tricking someone into leaking/giving out confidential informations. Common example will be phishing email of banks sent out by spammers/hackers with the intention of “fishing” for confidential informations. Victims of phishing would lose their whole entire bank balance if they are not careful and the person or organizations being phished would suffer more then just monetary lost.

Though there are many anti spam companies out in the market that claim to be able to detect phishing mails, it is important to know that many of these engines used by these companies uses definitions/database to detect phishing/spoof mails. Therefore there will always be a windows period that we are at risk when there is a new phishing mails or sites launched to fish out new victims.

There are few ways to keep ourselves better protected and also to detect phishing mails and act. I will be filling in the ways to protect ourselves and how to detect these phishing act in the follow up blogs. Stay close…stay tight.. stay protected! :)