How to identify a phishing site

Source: Internet
Author: User

What is a phishing website?

Phishing websites usually refer to Web sites disguised as banks and E-commerce, and stealing private information such as bank accounts, passwords, etc. that users submit. "Fishing" is an act of cyber fraud, refers to criminals use various means, phishing real site URL and page content, or use the real Site Server program vulnerabilities in some Web pages of the site to insert dangerous HTML code, in order to defraud users bank or credit card accounts, passwords and other private information, For personal gain.


In simple terms, some phishing sites are imitation Taobao, cat, Jing Dong, such as online shopping mall Web page, because of the interface style and online mall site is very similar, small white Internet users are easy to be induced in these phishing website login their account, so that their account information leakage.

How do I identify a phishing site?

In fact, the identification of phishing site is very simple, but the premise is that you need to know something about the Internet, if the major shopping malls and related to the Web site to understand more about the website, through the Web site can identify this. The following small series of small white users to teach 2 ways to identify phishing sites.

  Method One: Using security software to protect the authentication

In the computer can be installed 360 security guards, Jinshan guardian or a computer housekeeper, these computer security tools, will be in your visit to the shopping site, prompt you true and false, easy to small white users quickly identify, as shown in the following figure.

As shown above, the computer installed 360 security guards, in the entry Taobao will see is the official website tips, if it is a phishing site, the general will have warning tips. So that we can feel at ease shopping, Jinshan Guardian, computer Butler and even the guardian of Baidu have this function, it is worthy of small white students to adopt.

  Method Two: Inquires the website to record the information, the world rank

The general large-scale online mall site are enterprises, and the site is very popular, we can query the main information in the site of the record, the world rankings, to identify the phishing site. Here we take Jingdong as an example, we can also go to check Taobao and other large sites, and finally compare some of their own do not understand the site.

First enter the Love Station (aizhan.com) Web site query interface, and then enter the comprehensive query, and then enter the URL to query, as shown in the following figure.

Look down also can see the site's record information, as shown in the following figure, Jingdong Mall for the enterprise registration, and with detailed corporate information, as shown in the following figure.

View the nature of the site (regular mall site is the nature of the enterprise)

Jingdong Mall can be detected from the world ranking in 400, belong to the enterprise record. The general ranking of less than 10,000 are relatively large sites, in addition to the enterprise record, so the basic can be determined not to be a phishing site. If the query to the site ranking of more than 100,000 and the record information is an individual or no record, basically the site is not very reliable, enter the need to be careful.

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