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In previous, phishing threatens your privacy by stealing your bank account details, passwords, credit card numbers and others without your knowledge. To protect your online information you could always identify the emails you received whether are phishing scams or not then, you would not easily to be cheated.
Once you have identify that particular email is not authentic and it is a phishing email, you never click on links and download the attachments. It is all because those links could be controlled by the fraudsters and hackers at the other servers and the server could obtain your personal information and hack your account once you log in the fake system with your real id and password. On the other hand, attachments are usually containing virus, spyware that could steal your online activities too. Hackers send you the attachments, once you download it, those viruses and spyware would start to gather your information without your consent.
So now you are aware of the phishing emails, what kind of computer setting that could strengthen your protection of your online privacy?
The answer is PROXY. Set up proxy or use firewall in your computer. They could monitor your online activities and scan transmitted file before it delivers to your computer. Proxy also could guard your computer by stopping any threats which included spyware or malware. Proxy filters the content of the site and URL so, it could help to block suspicious content to be sent to your computer, deny access to those blacklisted sites and prevent unauthorized users to interrupt your online activities. Moreover, firewall could filter and detect any suspicious files or viruses too. They could detect and guard your computer when other servers are trying to intrude or hack your computer.
Reference:
Bradley Mitchell, Proxy Servers Tutorial - About Proxy Servers, About.com [Online]
Retrieved on 24th January 2010
URL: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/proxyservers/a/proxyservers.htm
In previous, phishing threatens your privacy by stealing your bank account details, passwords, credit card numbers and others without your knowledge. To protect your online information you could always identify the emails you received whether are phishing scams or not then, you would not easily to be cheated.
Once you have identify that particular email is not authentic and it is a phishing email, you never click on links and download the attachments. It is all because those links could be controlled by the fraudsters and hackers at the other servers and the server could obtain your personal information and hack your account once you log in the fake system with your real id and password. On the other hand, attachments are usually containing virus, spyware that could steal your online activities too. Hackers send you the attachments, once you download it, those viruses and spyware would start to gather your information without your consent.
So now you are aware of the phishing emails, what kind of computer setting that could strengthen your protection of your online privacy?
The answer is PROXY. Set up proxy or use firewall in your computer. They could monitor your online activities and scan transmitted file before it delivers to your computer. Proxy also could guard your computer by stopping any threats which included spyware or malware. Proxy filters the content of the site and URL so, it could help to block suspicious content to be sent to your computer, deny access to those blacklisted sites and prevent unauthorized users to interrupt your online activities. Moreover, firewall could filter and detect any suspicious files or viruses too. They could detect and guard your computer when other servers are trying to intrude or hack your computer.
Reference:
Bradley Mitchell, Proxy Servers Tutorial - About Proxy Servers, About.com [Online]
Retrieved on 24th January 2010
URL: http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/proxyservers/a/proxyservers.htm
2 comments:
ITS SO SCARY these days when I want to put my private details on the internet when I want to make my payment..
How to avoid thiss???
Hey Johnson, when you want to make payment please ensure the site is secured and verified. You could find a VeriSign there and the site's URL starts with https. Therefore, the site is secure. If you received weird email please do not click any links or download the attachment, it is very dangerous. You need to be more aware.
I am an user of maybank2u.com and yesterday I received an email from maybank.com, it request me to reconfirm the log in details. It is PHISHING! I notice it so I ignore and delete the email. You can see the email is not authentic based on the sender, original is maybank2u.com and the email i received is maybank.com somemore, bank would not ask you to reconfirm your details via emails.
For more online shopping case and details, you could read our previous post. I hope it is useful for you.
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