Phishing

What I know
- I don't know anything about the topic itself

Questions
- What is fishing?
- How does fishing work?

Useful Websites
- http://cybercellmumbai.gov.in/html/cyber-crimes/phishing.html
- http://www.csoonline.com/article/221737/phishing-the-basics
- http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/cybercrime/phishing/
What I Learned
- Phishing: the act or attempt to take or steal information from users such as usernames, passwords and credit card details; by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
- What they do to get your info is send mails saying to update info in a website but the link on the mail is false so you put your info in these special websites.
- They can take your info of any type such as credit cards, bank account passwords and others then they will or can sell it to other people or to the black market. 
- Phishing is based on real fishing because they put out bait and some will ignore others will be tempted.
- There is a technology known as sender authentication which will go into the mail sent and see if it's really sent from the website "the original" so let's say you get an e-mail from bancolombia saying you need to change your password; it will trace were the mail is sent from. this is called pharming a type of phishing.

How this topic related to my life
- This is related to my life because know a days there are alot of things that I may be using the internet for. So I could acidentaly give my information to a false site that will use this against me. 
This can turn in very serious consequences for both parties. 

Questions I still have
.- Is the illegal act rear or very frequent? Why?