Phishing is a way of illegaly collecting user information. It uses different tricks to make the user believe that the links their are clicking on and the websites they're on are legitimate while the only thing they really do is to send collected data to the phishers. The techniques used by the phishers involve cloning legitimate websites or emails, masking URLs to resemble a legitimate domain or even use a legitimate domain in the URL but redirect the user to a fake website. This quiz is designed to test the knowledge about phishing, how it works and how to avoid it.
Usernames and passwords
Credit card details
Social security numbers
Other personal details
Corporations
Specific social circles
You
Everyone
Google.com.accounts.com
Accounts.google.com
Google.accounts.com
Accounts.com/google
Google-accounts.com
Https:// protocol in the adress bar
Padlock icon in the website itself
Padlock icon in the browser status bar
Link to a trusted Certificate Authority in the page
Trusted Certificate Authority indication in the browser
Company logo
Seal of a Certificate Authority
Style of the email
None of them
Look and feel of the website
Noticing security indicators in the browser
The domain in the address bar seems to be legitimate
It has some links to real websites
The domain part looks legitimate but the rest of it is some strange symbols and numbers.
An IP address is given instead of an URL
It has @ ([email protected]) symbol in the URL
There is a port switch (example.com:8034) at the end of the URL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
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