Showing posts with label facebook phish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label facebook phish. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 February 2014

What is phishing ? How to create and protect yourself from phishing?

NOTE : This post is for the educational and testing purposes only.The author is not liable for any Legal action taken against reader which choses to use the content of this post for any illegal activities such as unauthorized breaking and hacking in someone's email or social media account.

Phishing : It is the act of attempting to acquire information like usernames,passwords,and credit card details of the user by masquerading as a trustworthy entity.Illegal phishing is a cyber crime,hence if the culprit gets legal actions can be taken against him
This process is carried out normally by an IT experts,and these kinds of IT expert are often called as hackers.

In this post you'll will learn about how they create and manipulate users to use the phishing page.
Normally a phishing page is an exact replica of the original page usually asking for the critical informations like username,passwords,credit card data...etc.This setup can be easily created by following the procedures mention below.