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Title: Phishing


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Phishing
  • Presented by
  • Sudipto Das
  • sudipto_at_cs.ucsb.edu

Information taken from Wikipedia,
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
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Presentation Outline
  • What is Phishing?
  • Recent Phishing Activities
  • Damages Caused by Phishing
  • Anti-phishing

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What is Phishing?
  • Is it a new spelling for Fishing?
  • - not really!!!
  • In computing, Phishing refers to a criminal
    activity using social enginerring techniques
  • Phishers attempt to acquire sensitive information
    fraudulently

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What is Phishing?
  • Typically carried out by email or IM
  • This attempt tries to trick the customers to
    providing account information

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Phishing Example
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Presentation Outline
  • What is Phishing?
  • Recent Phishing Activities
  • Damages Caused by Phishing
  • Anti-phishing

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Recent Phishing Activities
  • Earliest Phishing attempts were trying to
    register for accounts in AOL with algorithmically
    generated account numbers
  • Recent targets are customers of banks and online
    payment services
  • Personal information ontained from social
    networking sites used for identity theft

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Recent Trends in Phishing
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Presentation Outline
  • What is Phishing?
  • Recent Phishing Activities
  • Damages Caused by Phishing
  • Anti-phishing

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Damages Caused by Phishing
  • Ranges widely from loss of access to email
    accounts to financial loss and identity theft
  • Once personal information has been gathered, the
    phishers can use it for purposes that are
    detrimental to the user

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Presentation Outline
  • What is Phishing?
  • Recent Phishing Activities
  • Damages Caused by Phishing
  • Anti-phishing

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Anti-phishing Techniques- social responses
  • Train users to deal with phishing attempts
  • Look for hints that tell that the message is not
    from an authentic source
  • Legitimate emails from a company to its customers
    generally contain some information not readily
    available to the phishers
  • One should be suspicious if a message lacks this
    piece of information

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Anti-phishing Techniques- technical responses
  • Anti-phising softwares available which integrate
    with the brwosers
  • MS IE7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9.1
    includes some form of anti-phishing technology
  • Various sites have added verification tools to
    deal with phishing
  • - e.g. BoA sitekey, Yahoo Mails Sign-In Seal

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