Phishing is a technique that deceit people to obtain data from users. The social engineer tries to impersonate genuine website webpage like yahoo or face-book and will ask the user to enter their password and account ID.

It can be prevented by:

☛ Having a guard against spam

☛ Communicating personal information through secure websites only

☛ Download files or attachments in emails from unknown senders

☛ Never e-mail financial information

☛ Beware of links in e-mails that ask for personal information

☛ Ignore entering personal information in a pop-up screen