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PRONUNCIATION OF SPEAR-PHISHING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPEAR-PHISHING

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Spear-Phishing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SPEAR-PHISHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phishing

Phishing is the attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, banks, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure unsuspecting public. Phishing emails may contain links to websites that are infected with malware. Phishing is typically carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter details at a fake website whose look and feel are almost identical to the legitimate one. Phishing is an example of social engineering techniques used to deceive users, and exploits the poor usability of current web security technologies. Attempts to deal with the growing number of reported phishing incidents include legislation, user training, public awareness, and technical security measures. Phishing is a continual threat that keeps growing to this day. The risk grows even larger in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc.

Definition of spear-phishing in the English dictionary

The definition of spear-phishing in the dictionary is the practice of sending fraudulent e-mails to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft, by mimicking a sender that the recipient knows.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPEAR-PHISHING

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Spearman´s rank-order coefficient
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SPEAR-PHISHING

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Synonyms and antonyms of spear-phishing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «spear-phishing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPEAR-PHISHING

Find out the translation of spear-phishing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spear-phishing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spear-phishing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鱼叉式网络钓鱼
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

spear -phishing
570 millions of speakers

English

spear-phishing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भाला फ़िशिंग
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الرمح الخداع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

копье - фишинг
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spear -phishing
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্শা ফিশিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

harponnage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tombak-phishing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Speer -Phishing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スピアフィッシング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스피어 피싱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spear-phishing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giáo lừa đảo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஈட்டியுடன் ஃபிஷிங்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भाला-फिशिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yemleme kancası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spear - phishing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spear - phishing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спис - фішинг
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spear - phishing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δόρυ - phishing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spies - phishing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spjut - phishing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spear -phishing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spear-phishing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPEAR-PHISHING»

The term «spear-phishing» is normally little used and occupies the 123.443 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spear-phishing

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPEAR-PHISHING»

Discover the use of spear-phishing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spear-phishing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, Introductory
FIGURE 9-20 Phishing. Phishing schemes use legitimate-looking e-mails to trick users into providing private information. Spear phishing attacks are expected to increase as a result of the Epsilon data breach, which exposed names and e-mail  ...
Deborah Morley, Charles Parker, 2012
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Understanding Computers: Today & Tomorrow, Comprehensive ...
TREND Spear Phishing Going along with the trend of more sophisticated attacks is the emergence of a new type of phishing attack referred to as spear phishing. Essentially a more targeted, personalized phishing scheme, spear phishing ...
Deborah Morley, 2007
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Understanding Computers in a Changing Society
The link is for a non-secure Web pageanddoesnotusethe bank's domain. FIGURE 4-20 Phishing. Phishing schemes typically use legitimate-looking e- mails to trick users into providing private information. Spear phishing attacks are expected to ...
Deborah Morley, 2014
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Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, Introductory ...
Several recent spear phishing attacks were targeted at users of social networking sites like MySpace since the personal information (name, age, hobbies, friends list, favorite music, and so forth) typically included on these sites makes them a ...
Deborah Morley, 2008
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Handbook of Financial Cryptography and Security
The widespread availability of location information to phishers will allow them to turn the majority of their previously blind phishing attacks into carefully targeted spear phishing attacks. 12.3 Data Mining and Context In retrospect, it is only ...
Burton Rosenberg, 2010
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The Shortcut Guide to Extended Validation SSL Certificates
Dan Sullivan. Spear Phishing Spear phishing is a smaller, more targeted form of phishing. Spear phishing schemes often use smaller, regional businesses and target fewer victims than early, blanket-phishing schemes. Spear phishing has a  ...
Dan Sullivan, 2007
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CISSP Study Guide
A. Each phishing and spear phishing attack is socially engineered to trick the user into providing information to the attacker. B. Phishing and spear phishing attacks always have malicious code downloaded onto the user's computer.
Eric Conrad, Seth Misenar, Joshua Feldman, 2012
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Ninja Hacking: Unconventional Penetration Testing Tactics ...
Spear phishing is a targeted attack against a specific company, organization, or person. A spear phishing attack requires advanced information gathering so that the e-mail attack will be seen as legitimate, and directs the potential victim to a ...
Thomas Wilhelm, Jason Andress, 2010
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The Impact of Computer Security Policy Content Elements on ...
Variations on phishing include spear phishing, which instead of sending millions of generic e-mail messages to a large group of users, spear phishing targets only specific users. The e-mails used in spear phishing are customized to the ...
Mark D. Ciampa, 2008
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Data Leaks For Dummies
Spear phishing is an attempted e-mail spoofing fraud that targets a specific organization, seeking unauthorized access to confidential data. As with e-mail messages used in regular phishing expeditions, spear-phishing messages appear to ...
Guy Bunker, Gareth Fraser-King, 2009

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPEAR-PHISHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spear-phishing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cyber War: Sex, Fingerprints and Spear-Phishing
That, in turn, opens the door to “spear phishing” - sending an e mail that appears to be from a known individual or business. When the recipient opens the email, ... «Voice of America, Jul 15»
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Former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Employee Charged …
An e-mail spear-phishing attack involves crafting a convincing e-mail for selected recipients that appears to be from a trusted source and that, when opened, ... «Federal Bureau of Investigation, May 15»
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Hacker Lexicon: What Are Phishing and Spear Phishing?
Spear-phishing is a more targeted form of phishing. Whereas ordinary phishing involves malicious emails sent to any random email account, spear-phishing ... «Wired, Apr 15»
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Spear-Phishing Could Enable Cyberterrorism Attacks Against The U.S.
Spear-phishing, like phishing, involves emailing a malicious link or file. Whereas phishers send mass emails in hopes of stealing credit card information, Social ... «TechCrunch, Mar 15»
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Re/code on TV: Female CEOs, Spear-Phishing and the Late David …
This week's biggest video news from us is, of course, Kara Swisher's interview with President Barack Obama, but that was far from the only Re/code close-up of ... «Re/code, Feb 15»
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11 tips to stop spear-phishing
I've also heard how many of these top organizations are becoming very effective at protecting themselves from the risk of spear-phishing. Below are the top 11 ... «CSO, Dec 12»
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Spear Phishing More Profitable Than Mass Spam for Cyber-Criminals
A recent report from Cisco suggests that cyber-criminals are abandoning large-scale spamming attacks in favor of more profitable spear-phishing campaigns. «eWeek, Jul 11»

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