In the present scenario phishing attacks have become one of the most prevailing of all Internet scams because they can attack globally and capture and store the user's confidential information. This information is used by the attackers which are indirectly involved in the phishing process. According to Statistical data more than 1000 phishing attacks are launched every month and over the last few months phishing attacks have become more effective and complex to track and challenge. Development and awareness towards anti-phishing measures and strategies has become demand of the state of the art. An analysis of the anti-phishing measures taken up to combat with the phishing has been done under this study. This paper explains how phishing works and how it can be combated. Thus through this paper we are throwing light on phishing process execution, efficiency of available anti-phishing measures and how user can take precautions towards phishing attacks to protect their information.
Internet, hacking tricks, phishing, anti-phishing countermeasures, fake web pages etc
