Hello Readers! Have you ever thought of hacking a social networking site like Facebook, Orkut, twitter? If you did, then i'm sure that you have found exactly what you are searching for. There are several ways to hack a social networking sites. In this post, i'm going to write about the most commonly used technique to steal one's identity which is called as "PHISHING".
Before you read about the Phishing, please remember that this is for educational purpose only. In Simple words phishing can be described as "Creating an webpage similar to that of the trust worthy webpage for the purpose of stealing the personal and financial information like username, passwords, credit details etc,.
HOW PHISHING WORKS:
As said before, hackers will create a webpage similar to that of a webpage which they have chose to hack. Creating a webpage similar to that of a legitimate webpage is not a big deal. You can copy the Source of the webpage and save it in your webpage Source. Once the webpage is created, they will send an email to the victim to whom they are targeting to. When the victim enter his/her personal information and clicks "Sign in" or "Submit" button, then the information is sent to their web hosting and gets stored in a file or database. To pretend as if they are trust worthy, they will redirect you to the legitimate webpage
saying "Information you have provided was wrong" or something. Now the victim does not have any idea that his/her personal information in in hacker's hands.
Measures to avoid getting Phished:
1. Using Anti-Phishing software can prevent you from phishing.
2. Use 'https' instead of 'http'. The purpose of using 'https' is the data transfered between your system and the server will be encrypted.
3. Use Firewall.
4. Avoid using the links in e-mails.
5. Make sure the website name is correct. For example, instead of www.facebook.com you may get www.facebook.co.cc or something.
6. Make use of anti spam software.
Check out our Post on : Facebook Phishing
Before you read about the Phishing, please remember that this is for educational purpose only. In Simple words phishing can be described as "Creating an webpage similar to that of the trust worthy webpage for the purpose of stealing the personal and financial information like username, passwords, credit details etc,.
HOW PHISHING WORKS:
As said before, hackers will create a webpage similar to that of a webpage which they have chose to hack. Creating a webpage similar to that of a legitimate webpage is not a big deal. You can copy the Source of the webpage and save it in your webpage Source. Once the webpage is created, they will send an email to the victim to whom they are targeting to. When the victim enter his/her personal information and clicks "Sign in" or "Submit" button, then the information is sent to their web hosting and gets stored in a file or database. To pretend as if they are trust worthy, they will redirect you to the legitimate webpage
saying "Information you have provided was wrong" or something. Now the victim does not have any idea that his/her personal information in in hacker's hands.
Measures to avoid getting Phished:
1. Using Anti-Phishing software can prevent you from phishing.
2. Use 'https' instead of 'http'. The purpose of using 'https' is the data transfered between your system and the server will be encrypted.
3. Use Firewall.
4. Avoid using the links in e-mails.
5. Make sure the website name is correct. For example, instead of www.facebook.com you may get www.facebook.co.cc or something.
6. Make use of anti spam software.
Check out our Post on : Facebook Phishing
