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phishing

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phish

To attempt to steal personal information that can be used to defraud someone by pretending to be person or website that legitimately requires such information. We've gotten reports of someone phishing for our customer's login details recently. Remember, we will never ask you for your password under any circumstances, whether on the phone or by email. The group created a phony website meant to look like a popular online store in order to phish for people's credit card numbers.

phishing

The practice of stealing, or attempting to steal, personal information over the phone or on the internet by pretending to be someone or something that legitimately requires such details. We've gotten reports of a number of phishing attempts being made against our customers recently. Remember, we will never ask you for your password under any circumstances, whether on the phone or by email. The use of the so-called dark web makes the culprits behind these phishing attacks nearly impossible to catch.
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phishing 1

verb
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Facebook phishing has been on a tear throughout 2019 and advanced one spot up to number three in Q2 thanks to a 175.8 percent increase in phishing URLs.
A panel of fellow security experts highlighted the increasing sophistication and volume of phishing attacks, and consequently the growing risk to UK businesses.
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If you are using an insecure connection, cybercriminals can redirect you to phishing pages without your knowledge.For maximum protection, use VPN solutions that encrypt your traffic.
Phishing sites are used to trick victims into giving their personal data such as email addresses, identity card numbers, and even credit card information.
Findings: The results indicated that the approach is very effective in detecting phishing attacks on mobile phones with a True Positive of 94.5% and True Negative of 100% on the collected dataset.
By now most of you are familiar with the term "phishing," an activity in which an adversary attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information through an exchange of emails.
Just recently, around one million Google Docs users were affected by a phishing scam.
Like dozens of colleges and universities across the country in recent years, Tidewater had been the target of a phishing attack--an attempt to use email to convince someone to click on a malicious link or reveal a password.
Ang mga gumawa po noon, 'yung ibang nabigyan ng phishing page na galing sa akin.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of the integration of concept maps and tablet PCs into anti- phishing education for enhancing students' learning motivation and achievement.
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