Phishing Awareness Quiz

Phishing' is a common form of Internet piracy. It is deployed to steal users personal and confidential information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers, personal identity details etc. Later the perpetrators may use the information for siphoning money from the victim's account or run up bills on victim's credit cards. In the worst case one could also become the victim of identity theft.

Phishing emails have gotten so convincing that even the experts can be taken in by a well-crafted fake. Cyber criminals are employing a number of different types of phishing email attacks. Usually mimicking a trusted business or personal sender, they’ll either try to get users to click to a website they’ve created to trick them into entering personal information such as user IDs and passwords or credit card information, or even using a link that, once clicked, unknowingly installs malware on the user’s PC.
You can protect yourself against phishing by understanding the points given in http://infosecaffairs.blogspot.in/2014/11/protection-and-report-phishing.html
These days, fake emails are getting more sophisticated, so it can be tough to know whether an email is real or not.We have put together 10 emails, some real, some fake. They test your knowledge, and also help educate you on how to protect yourself against it. You can test your knowledge by giving quiz from http://infosecaffairs.blogspot.in/p/blog-page_24.html