Saturday, February 25, 2012

What is phishing, pharming and blue jacketing?

I have ICT assessments tomorrow and i was wondering if anyone could tell me what phishing, pharming and blue jacketing are?What is phishing, pharming and blue jacketing?
Phishing and farming is where an e-mail or pop up will give you a false story/"benefit" for you or your computer. They will say things such as "give me your e-mail/account info and i will upgrade you for free" this is especially popular in MMO'S such as World of Warcraft, Aion, Age of Conan, EQ series etc etc. I have not played these games but i know that because they are popular they will bring in a lot of phishing and pharmimg. Blue jacketing is where you download a file, says its one thing but really its another. Use firefox and autoscan it. Also, look how big the file is. Obviously a 1mb movie is suspicious as is a 2gb song. Be safe and use superantispyware from http://www.superantispyware.com to prevent all of these things. Good luck!What is phishing, pharming and blue jacketing?
Phising and Pharming are relatively the same thing. It's where you get false emails about quick money schemes that ask for your information and then use it to take your money. A popular one that happened a while back was about a person in Africa or the Middle East who just found out he was royalty and came into a lot of money and wanted to move the the US but needed a bank account to transfer his funds for whatever reason. I've never heard of blue jacketing though i'm afraid.

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