søndag 20. mars 2011

Phishing

This post will deal with some of the risks you take when you share information online. 


Phisning a way of attemting to aqire sensitive information susch as usernames, passwords and credit card details. This is done by someone pretendning to be someting they are not, by masquerading as a trustworthy enity in a electronic communication.        








Phising is a growing form of computer crime Those behind developing steadily new tools and methods  for phising. A common approach is that a person sends out e-mails and claiming that they are form a large bank and wants you to enter information about yourself in any way. E-mails will be send out to a number of peoples, and they might say that there are some problems with the credit cards in this bank. 


How to protetct youre self from such crime?
There are several different programs online detection of phishing. Newer versions of browsers have protection against this. Yet user trainging is very important. If you are in doubt after reciving an e-mail you can directly contakt the bank to get confirmation that is actually those who are transmitting. 


It is also important to consider what information you give to other about youre self online. 
One must take simple precautions and be aware that you actully can be scamed. 
Scammer often have economic purposes, so credit information you musk be careful to deliver online. 
Many may think that this dosent happend to me, but everyone should be on guard to avoid a negative experience.



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