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Phishing

Overview of Phishing in relation to cyber crime: [1] Phishing emerged as an online form of abusing information systems and defrauding people as the World Wide Web was created and became widely used in the mid-1990s. In 1995–1996 phishing attacks occurred periodically through America Online (AOL). Hackers, posing as AOL administrators, tricked AOL users into revealing their credit card information by telling them that there was a problem with their billing. Phishing attacks against banks and other financial institutions were reported to authorities beginning in 2003. Until that time, many phishing emails were easily recognizable because of their poor grammar and spelling errors. However, phishing quickly became more sophisticated as attackers created more legitimate looking emails and began using other techniques. Today, phishing can occur in several different technical ways, but typically involves a cybercriminal sending a digital message that purports to be from a trusted source organization. This commonly happens when an attacker sends ''spoofed'' (i.e., faked) messages through email or instant messages that appear to be from a legitimate financial institution such as Chase Bank or a popular online retailer such as eBay or Amazon.

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1. By Ben Woelk

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• Types of Cybercrime
• Cybercriminal

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Anti-PhishingWorking Group. Web site http://www.antiphishing. org, and, specifically, Phishing activity trends: Report for the month of June 2007, available at http://apwg.org/reports/apwg_report_june_2007.pdf, and Origins of the word 'phishing,' available at http://www.antiphishing.org/word_phish.html; Gartner Group. (2006, November 9). Gartner says number of phishing e-mails sent to U.S. adults nearly doubles in just two years. Gartner.com Web site: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id =498245; McQuade, S. (2006). Understanding and Managing Cyber Crime. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon; Message Labs. (2007, September). Message Labs Intelligence: September and Q3 in review. A downpour of virus & phishing activity, in the wake of a storm worm surge.'' Available at messagelabs.com Web site: http://www.messagelabs. com/mlireport/MLI_Report_September_Q3_2007.pdf; National Conference of State Legislatures. (2007, February 21). 2007 State legislation relating to ''phishing.'' NCSL Web site: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/phishing07.htm; Richardson, R. (2007). CSI 2007 computer crime and security survey, from http://i.cmpnet.com/v2.gocsi.com /pdf/CSISurvey2007.pdf; U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (2008). OnGuard Online Web site: http://onguardonline.gov/index.html; Washington Post. (2004, November 18). A brief history of phishing. Washington Post Web site: http://www.washingtonpost. com/wp-dyn/articles/A59350-2004Nov18.html.