Pharming

Pharming is a technique to exploit a vulnerability in the DNS server that allows a hacker to acquire the domain name for a site, and to redirect that website's traffic to another web site or a fake site. DNS servers are the machines responsible for resolving internet names into their real addresses.

Phone phishing

Messages that claimed to be from a bank informed innocent users to dial a phone number regarding problems with their bank accounts. Once the phone number (owned by the phisher) was dialed, prompts told users to enter their account numbers and PIN. Vishing (voice phishing) sometimes uses fake caller-ID data to give the appearance that calls come from a trusted organization.

Phishing

In the field of computer security, phishing is a fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by luring an innocent as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Damages by phishing
It is estimated that between May 2004 & May 2005, approx 1.2 million users in the US suffered by phishing, totaling approx $929 million. US businesses lose an estimated $2 billion per year as their clients become victims. 3.6 million adults lost $3.2 billion in the 12 months ending in August 2007. In UK losses from web banking fraud mostly from phishing almost doubled to ?23.2 million in 2005, from ?12.2m in 2004.

Online Threats

What is an Online Threat?
Online Threat/Internet Fraud or Online scams refer to any type of fraud that uses online services to present fraudulent/fake solicitations to lure innocent victims to conduct fraudulent transactions.