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Phishing attacks and countermeasures
Added: Friday, 20 May 2005
Publisher: CERT-In
Category: Network Security

As more and more systems are getting connected to the Internet, the risk of system attacks by the malicious users is also increasing. Most of the services are becoming online these days. Nowadays one can make transactions with financial institutions and shopping marts just with a click of mouse. Phishing is a recent form of cyber attack in which scammers make Internet users divulge with sensitive information about their bank accounts and personal details.

The scammers are able to target Internet users due to some inherent weakness in web browsers and other technical aspects of the Internet. The solution to this problem lies in taking countermeasures at financial institutions and at end user levels. The various methods to counter such attacks are explained in this paper.

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