Don’t Get Phished! The UnITMon Anti-Phishing Service
'Phishing’ is a term combination of ‘Password’ and ‘Fishing’ . The word is a neologism created as a homophone of fishing due to the similarity of using bait in an attempt to catch a victim but this time in cyber world. The act is a cyber attack especially for email services, banking-finance, telecommunication, social media networks, e-commerce and online gaming. Cyber criminals initialize the process by recording user’s passwords at any platform that requires an authorization.Users usually receive emails with links to websites that are infected with malware. One gets phished by being re-directed to fake sites or by replying phishing emails. These types of phishing sites generally request personnel information, credit card numbers, passwords, account user names and personal / corporate information. Due to practicality purposes in our daily life, Internet usage increased for especially online shopping and online banking where wire transfers or payments in general are involved....
