Phishing Attacks: Identification and Prevention

Phishing is a major source of insecurity within the internet. This is a kind of fraud in which an individual or a group of individuals aim to get access to valuable data and personal information of an internet user without consent. In this respect, it is extremely necessary to institute detection and preventive measures to protect internet users. This study will describe phishing, address the development of tools and their application in the fight against phishing, explore the provision of education for the detection of phishing with information sourced from past studies in this field and consider possible solutions to the problems related to phishing.