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Sunday, September 1, 2013

How to protect yourself from phishing !

1. What is phishing?
* Phishing is a method of stealing infos (username and password) from a fake login page (fake page), it keeps the user / pass in a log. Txt, where the victim is not aware of this.
* These fake sites are also called as phisher.

2. How to protect yourself from phishing?
* Enter your login info only correct places.
Never give your login info on any site you're registered, then when you know that it is a trusted service like youtube, google ...
* Be sure the login to a site that is not fake
're Always attentive that we are doing which login page, always check the url if you're in the right place. For example if you want to login to Facebook, then url must be http://www.facebook.com/, not http://www.facebook.webs.com, http://www.facebookz.com or another site false.
* Are you sure you do not click links that are false.
Always when you click a link, check where it will link you send, links can be disguised, for example www.google.com sends you itshqip.com instead to send in google.com, also important because protect by a dangerous method called "cookie stealing" that automatically steals your account, if you are logged in at the site earlier.
The fake sites are usually distributed in email introducing various daemons or persons, as for example sending email from a site that you are registered, or email any of your friend's compromised.

What to do if you encounter a phisher?
* Report page immediately following url:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
http://www.reportphish.org/forwardphish.php
http://www.us-cert.gov/nav/report_phishing.html
If you receive a message from a friend of your account, get your friend that you tell others about the dangers of phishing

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