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Phishing Attacks in Mobile Platforms

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Abstract

On facing this fast-moving world every bit of the world is leading by technology. Mobile phones are the major part of our day to day life. Mobile platforms are said to be the hardware and software environment for laptops, tablets, smartphones and also for other portable devices. Mobile operating systems and browsers lack secure application identity indicators, so the user cannot always identify whether a link takes to the expected application. Phishing is a most popular attack and it gets targeted mostly at financial organizations. It is a type of online theft where the sensitive information is obtained by redirecting the victim to malicious websites. This chapter discusses about Phishing attacks in Mobile Platforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Anthology on Securing Mobile Technologies and Applications
PublisherIGI Global
Pages247-266
Number of pages20
ISBN (Electronic)9781799886013
ISBN (Print)9781799885450
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 1 2021
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Engineering
  • General Computer Science

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