Saturday, June 18, 2011

Surviving a phishing attack

Phising is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames , passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication - wikipedia 

Make note of the urls present in the browsers . It is quite evident the second was to acquire your username and password . This actually happened to me but would advice you to ALWAYS CHECK YOUR ADDRESS BAR BEFORE YOU PRESS ENTER .

Original Site 

Phishing Site

Well luckily I had registered my account on the original site using my email id . Hence the forgot password option worked really well . 

Should have know there was something phishy when they tried to offer a 1 month free gold membership .