phishing

What you know about the topic before your research:

I don’t know anything.

-What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching:

How can you do it?

How to prevent from falling

-Links to where you found the most useful information:

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_phishing

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/4070-10-Ways-To-Prevent-Phishing.html

Bullet list of things you learned about the topic:

Be suspicious of any email with urgent requests for personal financial information.

 To prevent from being a victim ensure that your browser is up to date and security patches applied

It can be any web page

Some web browsers have anti phishing features that may help you.

It means: to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users

This topic connects and relates to my life in different ways the most important fact is that I use the internet regularly every day and now I know phishing exists. Now that I know that it exists I can start using internet safely because now I know how to detect the suspicious behavior.

One question I still have is if they can hack the real link to make it their own.