Question

1 Phishing and Spoofing Use a search engine to search for recent articles discussing spoofing cases. Describe the event and its effect on the company or organization hosting the website. Were there any known security flaws that contributed to the attack? Were the offenders caught? How? Use a search engine to search for articles and blog posts about protecting yourself from phishing attacks. What changes, if any, should you make to your Internet activities to protect yourself? Evaluate, if possible, any protections offered by your antivirus software, firewall, or browser. Submit your findings in the format requested by your instructor.

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Answer 1

Recent spoofing case:

British airways website was spoofed successfully by the hackers. They have taken about 500000 customers data including their names,addresses,login informations,payment card details etc.

Effect on the organization:

About 1.5% of its annual revenue was lost. Most of their customers has suffered loss ant it lost its reputation.

Security flaws:

There were no security flaws in the organisation. But spoofing is a kind of hacking technnique which works on all internet browers. spoofing cannot be protected by providing any security.It was not in the hands of the organization. One thing organisation can do is providing security to the data of their customers even if their site got spoofed.

Does victims caught?:

The victims were not caught in this case.

How can one protect from phising attacks?:

One should use anti-phising tools to provide security.

1.Change your passwords frequently.

2.Be cautious when you are clicking on shorten links

3.Never provide your personal data via emails as no organization will ask your data through mails.

4.look for "S" in the provided link to you in the https. Here, "s" refers to security.

5.Dont allow remote access until and unless it is that much necessary.

Thank you......!!!!