phishing

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (uncountable) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
2. (uncountable) The act of circumventing security with an alias.

Verb

present participle and gerund of phish

phish

• Verb
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Conceptos

phishing

suplantación de identidad (phishing)

robo de identidad

Sinónimos

cybercrime

Traducciones

hameçonnage

Phishing

phishing

phishing

Angeln

filoutage

ερασιτεχνική αλιεία/ψάρεμα με καλάμι

Fischfang

🎣

phishing (suplantació d’identitat)

ηλεκτρονικό ψάρεμα

εκτροφή ψαριών

αλίευση

ψάρεμα

pêche

🍑

Fischerei

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.