Vishing is the practice of using social engineering over the telephone system with the purpose of stealing sensitive financial information or other sensitive personal data from a victim. Vishing is one of the most serious threats today and is widely perpetrated by criminals. The word “ vishing ” is a combination of two words “voice” and “phishing”. In this technique, attackers use the telephone system to do phishing and hence the name. Vishing is typically used by criminals to steal sensitive banking information like account number, PIN, password, OTP, and credit card numbers or to steal other personal details of users that the attackers can exploit to perpetrate identity theft. Attackers often use VoIP and an automated system like IVR to perpetrate vishing. They may even use techniques like War Dialing and Caller ID Spoofing to serve their purpose. How does Vishing work? Attackers may perpetrate vishing as mentioned below. Criminals first harvest phone nu
So mobile devices are commonplace, and we know that just by opening our eyes and looking around. However, a lot of common problems also occur that could be easy ways for an attacker to cause you to harm: One of the more common problems with mobile devices is that they quite often do not have passwords set, or else the passwords are incredibly weak. While some devices do offer simple-to-use and effective biometric systems for authentication instead of passwords, they are far from being the norm. Although most devices support passwords, PIN codes, and gesture-based authentication, many people do not use these mechanisms, which means if the device is lost or stolen, their data can be easily accessed. Unprotected wireless connections are also a known issue with many devices and seem to be worse on mobile devices. This is more than likely due to the owners of these devices being out and about and then finding an open access point and connecting without regard to whether it is