Sunday 17 April 2011

Be aware of phishing





Phishing is the act of sending an email (claiming to be a legitimate enterprise) to users.
 this email direct the users to visit a website on which they are asked to update personal information like passwords,credit card,social security and also bank account numbers, that the legitimate organization already has.
An example of phishing happened in 2003 that the users receive an email from eBay,falsely claiming that the users account were about to be suspended unless the users clicked on the provided link and then updated the credit card information. people simply thought that email as real and went to eBays site and updated their account information. phisher can uses this information to fraud or simply transfer funds of user's account.
This act is a sample of computer crime and based on act 1997, section , is liable to a maximum RM50'000 fine or to five years imprisonment or to both. 
To additional information, some new softwares have been recently produced to protect users against phishing such as Anti-Phishing Phyllis Training Game which teaches users how to recognize phishing traps indicative of fraudulent emails.





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