Phishing Countermeasures Unleashed

In this article I have my best to gather and explain all those possible ways by which phishing can be avoided. Here I am going to explain Phishing counter measures in very details. As you know phishing is kind of technical and psychological attack on human nature, which make him/her to reveal their sensitive information to the attacker. For more information on phishing you may visit Wikipedia and search for a topic “Phishing”. Here I am going to provide you all possible counter measures for phishing attacks.

INTRODUCTION

Phishing attack is a complex combination of technology as well as psychology. There are numerous ways in which people are being made fools and they can be conned by hitting on unsecured website links. Especially with the growing of the marketing industry, these types of attacks are being risen. 2007 case study shows that phishing attackers were collecting and purchasing Google AdWords in order to install RAT on victim’s systems. By this attacker can click on a couple of adds through which they can earn some money.

1.    Auto Generate Domain Specific Password
Many researchers have developed such kind of  mechanism in which when you give username and password, it turns into domain specific password and that is even via transparently method. The basic idea behind this is to hashing of passwords with a secret key along with website domain name. Web site domain name is very important because it will tell that password to go into that domain [1].

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