30
Apr
Nice Anti-Phishing Feature at Yahoo
Have you noticed that when you log on to your yahoo.com mail, they are now offering to activate a nice anti-phishing feature? Phishing is now rampant and is one of greatest artillery in a hacker’s tool.
Phishing is used to steal your personal financial information like credit card details and account usernames and passwords. What it does is it tricks the user that he/she is on a valid website, but actually it is a ‘cloned’ website. This anti-phishing feature by Yahoo is great to identify that you are on the real yahoo website before entering your password.
Yahoo offers you to create a sign-in seal, which is either a photo or a text, that you have created to identify that you are on the genuine yahoo.com site. If you’re sign-in seal is not there, it is sure-fire way of telling that it is a spoof page to steal your personal information.
Begin to activate your Yahoo sign-in seal now, if you haven’t done so.
Similar sites, especially those on financial business, should similarly offer this cool feature.
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