{"id":40,"date":"2011-12-20T20:14:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-09-06T13:54:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:54:11","slug":"phishing-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/phishing-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In internet security phishing refers to a cyber attack where criminals identify themselves fraudulently as a company you do business with through emails, on websites or even through hacked software. An attacker will illegally brand their website or correspondence, possibly with a large corporations branding, and solicit information that can be used during an authentication process. Phishing is a play on the word fishing because hackers are baiting the victim into divulging confidential information which could be used for data breaches. Due to phishing attacks companies will add a warning to any information sent to customers or during login which disclaims anyone from or associated with the business asking for private data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/two-factor-authentication.php\">See DynaPass Two-Factor Authentication<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In internet security phishing refers to a cyber attack where criminals identify themselves fraudulently as a company you do business with through emails, on websites or even through hacked software. An attacker will illegally brand their website or correspondence, possibly with a large corporations branding, and solicit information that can be used during an authentication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[19,16,20,15],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-security","tag-data-breaches","tag-hacking","tag-malware","tag-phishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dynapass.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}