Phishing

Spawns of phishing threats such as ´spear phishing´ - highly targeted and coordinated attacks at a specific organisation or individual designed to extract critical data - increased more than ten-fold since January of this year alone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term phishing comes from the analogy that the fraudsters are 'fishing' for information in the sea of internet users ❋ Unknown (2011)

This must be how my mom feels when she marvels at me for knowing how to find things on the internet! and not click on links in phishing emails! ❋ Unknown (2010)

The numbers, and a sharp increase in phishing attacks targeting nervous banking customers, reflect a recent spike in cyber-related scams over the past several weeks, Davis and others say. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For most people, phishing is still something you do with a hook and a line by a river. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Instead, this type of worm could possibly be used in phishing attempts if it were modifying the hosts file to spoof banks instead of Google. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A particular type of spam/scam called phishing is making the news more and more lately. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Without it, you probably wouldn't even recognize the terms phishing, cybercrime, data breach, or botnet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Re: Claire, "Fishing" is an excellent angle into the problem - why don't we call phishing what it is for everyone else - attempted fraud? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Security experts say the real worry isn't someone hacking into Obama's BlackBerry but rather more mundane issues raised by an e-mailing commander in chief, such as phishing, which is when an email sender tries to trick the recipient into thinking the message is from someone else. ❋ Unknown (2009)

More recently, we've seen a plague of "phishing" -- sending bogus e-mails that look like they come from legitimate companies, asking us to supply supposedly lost or outdated personal information. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Last night ABC News ran a piece on "phishing" - fake e-mails where people get duped into sending private information such as bank PIN numbers to scammers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He emphasizes that it's not all an effort to penetrate -- a lot of it is "phishing" -- but the Pentagon's computers are targeted at least 5,000 times every 24 hours. ❋ By JOEL CONNELLY / SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF (2010)

It's a scam called "phishing" - and it involves Internet fraudsters who send spam or pop-up messages to lure personal information ❋ Unknown (2009)

Includes hacking - stealing data from other people's computers - and "phishing" - sending fake emails asking for bank details ❋ Unknown (2009)

You've heard of "phishing" - with a P-H - where you receive a bogus email from your bank or credit union asking for some very personal information. ❋ Unknown (2009)