Phishing is a type of internet frauds that aim to steal the valuable information of the users such as credit cards, security number and password. It is a fake website that created similar to the original organizations such as bank. An email will send and request the user to access the fake website, and require the user to fill up their personal details and also the security number or password. Once the user fill up their personal details, fake website creator will use the information to steal the user’s money in the bank, ID of the games and so on.
Here are the links that teach you how to prevent the phishing.
http://www.wordspy.com/words/phishing.asphttp://kb.iu.edu/data/arsf.htmlHere are the links to teach u how to spot a phishing scam
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2005/phishing.aspExample of phishing website:
Bank Phishing Example
Ebay Phishing Example
Let’s all work together to prevent phishing scams. If you receive a suspicious e-mail, please report it. You can send it to the US Federal Trade Commission at
spam@uce.gov or you can just click the ‘report as junk’ button on your e-mail program. This will help to reduce the phishing scams and provide a more safety environment for users of internet.
I'm here to share my post again. It is about the application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia..
3rd party certificationWhat is that? According to British Standards Institution (2009), it is an assessment carried out to ensure compliance with a publicly available technical specification.
More detailed information can be found at
http://www.bsigroup.com/en/ProductServices/Fire/Fire-alarm-installations/About-the-scheme/Third-party-certification/m/en/ProductServices/Fire/Fire-alarm-installations/About-the-scheme/Third-party-certification/Where Certificate Authority (CA) is a trusted third-party organization or company that issues
digital certificates used to create
digital signatures and
public-private key pairs. If you still doubt about what is CA, you can go to this link as below
http://webopedia.com/TERM/C/certification_authority.htmla.com/TERM/C/certification_authority.htmlMSCTrustga
te.com Sdn BhdThe most famous application of 3rd party certification programme in Malaysia. It is a licensed CA in Malaysia operating within the Multimedia Super Corridor which incorporated in 1999. The company offer SSL Certificate, Managed PKI, Personal ID, My TRUST, MyKAD ID, SSL VPN, Managed Security Services, VeriSign Certified Training and Application Development.
http://msctrustgate.com/about_us.htm.com/about_us.htm
TrustgateIt is a licensed CA in Malaysia which provided by MSCTrustgate.com Sdn Bhd. The diagram below shows the product and services which provide by Trustgate.
I'll be sharing few of the products and services which provided by Trustgate.
Verisign Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate
It is a technology that developed by Netscape. It is a technology that used to enhance the server security and allows users transmit document or having online transaction safely via the Internet.
More detailed information can be found at
http://www.verisign.com/ssl/ssl-information-center/how-ssl-security-works/http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Secure_Socket_Layer.htmlrity.com/articles/Secure_Socket_Layer.htmlManaged PKI (MPKI) for Enterprise Trust Services is designed to secure intranet, extranet and the internet. The diagram below shows how MPKI work.
Digital ID is which is basically design for secure the online transactions, documents, and e-mails.
MyTRUST gives user more convenient on mobile banking and other financial services which is using the users' SIM card in Mobile digital signature. MyTRUST provides 3 areas of services for government, banks and enterprise. Everyone knows about
MyKAD which allow users to make online transaction with government and public sectors. For other products and services, kindly go to these few links:
http://www.msctrustgate.com/product/ssl_vpn.htmhttp://www.msctrustgate.com/product/mss.htmhttp://www.msctrustgate.com/product/training.htmhttp://www.msctrustgate.com/product/app_dev.htmThanks for reading my post....please feel free to leave any comment. Have a nice day. =)
Safeguarding have been an important issue in nowadays. There have been more threats in the IT world compare to the history. Basically, the threats can be categorized to 3 category, which are hacker, malicious code(e.g. virus and worms) and vulnerability(errors when programming, attackers take advantage on these errors). Therefore, safeguarding our data is important these days.
Ways to safeguard our data
Firewall and
Anti-VirusThe easiest way and common way to protect your data is through the use of firewall and anti-virus. This will enable the users to protect themselves from worms and trojans. It will be important for the users to update their virus definition file.
Scanning
Always scan the computer regularly with an anti-spyware program, to detect the
spyware or
adware hidden in the software program, as they will slow down the performance of the computer or give chances to the attackers to attack the computer's data.
Update your patchesUpdate patches of the program regularly, to patch the "hole" inside the program, to prevent attackers taking advantage on it.
EncryptionEncrypt your data to prevent hackers to steal your data. Encryption of data will ensure that unauthrozied people will not be able to gain access to the data, to prevent any loss of data.
BackupBackup your data always, to prevent any loss of data and could not claim back the data.
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST06-008.html
