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How to avoid phishing attack?

  • Thursday, September 6, 2012
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  • ESCAPE FROM PHISHING ATTACK-SAFE & SECURE BROWSING


    avoid phishing


    Phishing:

    Steal some information in network without original identity is know as phishing,but its very vulnaruable and phishing  is considered to be more harm and phishing is a severe crime.

    How to identify phishing?

    phishing mostly happens in facebook,google,twitter and social networking site.Mainly in facebook phishing is happening widely and they are in high node to control it.

    click on image to enlarge

    step 1:-
    This is the real facebook hompage and view it carefully,it iis without phishing.

    original facebook website


    enlarge the image and see address bar it is www.facebook.com original address will be looks


    step2:
    The duplicate addres may looks as same as real one,enlarge the below image and see,this may be phishng webpage.

    duplicate facebook image


    the difference is you will find www.faceb00k.com it will be 00(two zero instead of oo).

    step3:-
    Then enlarge below imgae,you may also find facebook as subdomain with unwanted numbers(that is not unwanted,its hexcode of main domain name).

    duplicate facebook webpage with subdomain

     How to  escape or avoid phishing attack?

    1. If you are in cyber cafe or any unsecure place just type wrong user id and password first then it prompt for new password (password and user id didnot match or anything else) then its safe.
    2. Then enter correct id and password and login.
    3. Then at first if you enter the correct id and password first if you are again found a facebook login page then its is valunarable.
    4. Just sign in and change password immeadiately and log out.
    Security tips to avoid phishing attack:
    1. Always use VIRTUAL KEYBOARD or  MONITOR KEY BOARD to avoid key logger hack.
    2. Avoid using social networking sites or mail in untrusted cafe or network.

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