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Understanding the Cybercrime

   

Added on  2020-03-23

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Running head: NETWORK AND SECURITYNetwork and SecurityName of Student-Name of University-Author Note-

1NETWORK AND SECURITYAbstractEmail phishing is one of the most dangerous cyber threat that is faced in the cyber space.Internet faces online threats that have risk in the area of losing private information, identity theftand also prone to financial damages. So there rises a problem of sustainability of internet incommercial exchanges. This report shows the details of email phishing. The reasons that emailphishing has become so effective in this digital era is also detailed.IntroductionThe word phishing means the process in which the attacker makes the user to access afake site by the process of sending faked emails or some messages and get all the details of theuser that includes name, national security identity and password (Kumar, Srikanth & Tejeswini,2016). The word phishing is derived from the word fishing. The identity theft that shows fakewebsite which seems to be a real website so that the victim falls in their trap is phishing. This isdone to get access to the information of the user, passwords and the details of the account andeven the credit card number of the user. For mitigating phishing technique, much anti-phishingsoftware are present which detects the attempts of phishing that comes in email and detect thecontent on the websites (Abdullah, George & Mohammed, 2015). With the development digitaltechnology, the phishers who conducts email phishing introduce new techniques to attack thetechniques and software that are available. This report illustrates details of e-mail phishing, reason that makes email phishingeffective and describing the reasons for people falling under email phishing. Name:

2NETWORK AND SECURITYInternet is a strong medium for individuals and organizations as well that does onlinebusiness. Trading is done by many organization online and sale of goods and services are doneonline (Sankhwar & Pandey, 2017). Internet faces online threats that have risk in the area oflosing private information, identity theft and also prone to financial damages. So there rises aproblem of sustainability of internet in commercial exchanges. Phishing of one of the onlinethreats that online internet faces that impersonate the website by getting the access of the privateinformation of the user that includes name, national security identity and password. Genuinewebsite falls under the trap of phishing. This report illustrates the effectiveness of email phishingand the psychology behind people to fall in the trap of email phishing. BackgroundEmail phishing occurs when the attacks lures the user to click on the email that thatseems to be fro valid website and getting the access of all the personal information of the user.The phishing scam is rising tremendously which are spread by malware emails. This happenswhen the cyber criminals get access to the data and network of the user (Al-Alawi, 2014). Thismakes email phishing more effective. The rise in cyber crime mainly in the email phishing sectorproves email is becoming more effective with the increasing of digital technologies that areconnected to Internet. The user falls in the trap of phishers by clicking on the links that areprovided by the attackers and allows the attacker to get access to the details of all users.According to (), the identity theft that shows fake website which seems to be a real website sothat the victim falls in their trap is phishing. Name:

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