Phishing Attacks and Its Preventions

: Now-a-days online attacks have increased to a great extent and the most popular attack among them is phishing. Phishing can be basically defined as one kind of attack in which various attackers acquire the confidential and sensitive information of the victims. The Phishing is an attempt by an individual or a group to thieve personal confidential information such as passwords, credit card information  from unsuspecting victims for identity theft, financial gain and other fraudulent activities. In phishing attack phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information like users id, password, contact details, credit card information etc. by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an electronic communications. Thus, security in such cases should be very high to avoid the online attacks. So it is very much important for users to identify the fake website and avoid falling prey to it.