White Papers

What Is Phishing, and How to Avoid These Kinds of Attacks on Companies

• Tags:
• theft,
• united states,
• objectives,
• nature

Overview Identity theft, i.e. the theft of someone's credentials to access financial facilities and information, has become the most popular crime in the United States. One of the fastest growing methods of identity theft is phishing, a form of electronic fraud which consists in fooling the victim into providing confidential information either of a financial or personal nature. The most common mechanism used by criminals to achieve their objectives is spoofing an email to make customers think that it comes from a reputable source.

• 
• Did you find this white paper useful?

• Subscribe to the IT White Papers Newsletter
• White Paper RSS