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June 21: A spear phishing incident at the Office of the Secretary of Defense steals sensitive U.S. defense information, leading to significant changes in identity and message-source verification at OSD. [64] [65] August 11: United Nations website hacked by Indian Hacker Pankaj Kumar Singh. [66]
The term "phishing" is said to have been coined by the well known spammer and hacker in the mid-90s, Khan C. Smith. [3] The first recorded mention of the term is found in the hacking tool AOHell (according to its creator), which included a function for attempting to steal the passwords or financial details of America Online users.
Phishing is a modern scam in which the artist communicates with the mark, masquerading as a representative of an official organization with which the mark is doing business, in order to extract personal information which can then be used, for example, to steal money.
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail , if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail , if it's an important account email.
AOL takes your security very seriously, and as such, we stay ahead of this problem by updating our DMARC policy to tell other compliant providers like Yahoo, Gmail, and Outlook to reject mail from AOL address sent from non-AOL servers.
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, and a basic set of instructions. [3]
Honeypot operators may discover other details concerning the spam and the spammer by examining the captured spam messages. Open-relay honeypots include Jackpot, written in Java by Jack Cleaver; smtpot.py , written in Python by Karl A. Krueger; [ 17 ] and spamhole, written in C . [ 18 ]
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