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Phishing Exposed
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Phishing Exposed

by Lance James, Dave Jevans
November 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
450 pages
11h 24m
English
Syngress
Content preview from Phishing Exposed
Phishing has actually been around for over 10 years, starting with America
Online (AOL) back in 1995.There were programs (like AOHell) that automated
the process of phishing for accounts and credit card information. Back then
phishing wasn’t used as much in e-mail compared to Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
or the messaging alert system that AOL used.The phishers would imitate an
AOL administrator and tell the victim that there was a billing problem and they
needed them to renew their credit card and login information. Back then,
because personal computers in the home combined with Internet usage were a
fairly new experience, this method proved quite effectiv ...
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ISBN: 9781597490306