PHISHING PROTECTION

What is Phishing ?

Phishing is a fraudulent attempt, usually made through email, to steal your personal information. The best way to protect yourself from phishing is to learn how to recognize a phish.

Phishing emails usually appear to come from a well-known organization and ask for your personal information — such as credit card number, social security number, account number or password. Often times phishing attempts appear to come from sites, services and companies with which you do not even have an account.

In order for Internet criminals to successfully "phish" your personal information, they must get you to go from an email to a website. Phishing emails will almost always tell you to click a link that takes you to a site where your personal information is requested. Legitimate organizations would never request this information of you via email.

example for phishing email

example for phishing website

                                                                                                                         (source:- from phishtank)

now we know what is phishing but how to prevent it. here are some ways and tools to protect you from phishing attack.

there are many addons and extensions to protect you from phishing

Extensions and addons:-

Bitdefender Traffic light:- Scans in real time for phishing and viruses in the websites you visit. shows a stop signal when you open a website. 

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if you want all your browsers (opera,chrome,firefox,safari,internet explorer) protected by traffic light click here to download.

Another addon which supports all browsers (opera,chrome,firefox,safari,internet explorer) and can also be installed in a single browser is WOT.

It shows you website reputation based on votes given by people.you can also vote for developing site ratings.blocks phishing malicious sites.I highly recommend this addon.

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Your antivirus may also have phishing protection addon or tools like avast webrep

How to protect yourself from phishing video