What is Phishing? Do I need to know?

Phishing

“In simple words, Phishing is a process of creating a duplicate copy of a reputed website’s page in the intention of stealing user’s password or other sensitive information like credit card details. In our topic, Creating a page which perfectly looks like Gmail login page but in a different URL like gooogle.com or gmaail.com or any URL which pretends to be legit. When a user lands on such a page, he/she might think that is real Gmail login page and asking them to provide their username and password. So the people who do not find phishing page suspicious might enter their username, password and the password information would be sent to the Gmail hacker who created the phishing page, simultaneously the victim would get redirected to original Gmail page.” – Gmail Hacker

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How could you protect yourself from phishing?

Hackers can reach you in many ways like emails, personal messages, Facebook messages, Website ads etc. Clicking on any links from these messages would lead you to a login page. Whenever you find a login page, you should note only one thing:

Is the URL correct?

1. What is the URL you see in browser address bar?
2. Is that really https://mail.google.com/ or https://www.gmail.com/ 
3. Is there a Green colour secure symbol (HTTPS) provided in the address bar?

Green is what you are looking for when it comes to email and banking or other financial sites.

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Keeping these questions in your mind would prevent you from getting hacked of phishing.