phishing
pronunciation
How to pronounce phishing in British English:
UK [ˈfɪʃɪŋ]
How to pronounce phishing in American English:
US [ˈfɪʃɪŋ]
Word Origin
- phishing (n.)
- in the cyber scam sense, by 2000 (some sources cite usage from 1995); alteration of fishing (n.); perhaps by influence of phreak and the U.S. rock band Phish, which had been performing since 1983.
Example
- 1. Send its employees phishing e-mails with malicious attachments containing the subject line " 2011 recruitment plan . "
- 2. Firefox 3 has similar phishing and malware protection .
- 3. Police were hired to mainly block phishing and terrorist websites .
- 4. As elsewhere , real assets are mainly stolen by phishing and trojans .
- 5. While phishing attacks have been around for some time , attackers continue to innovate and devise new attacks .