phishing
English
Etymology
Respelling of fishing (“trying to find”). In Usenet newsgroups, cracker and pirate groups used variant spellings of phish and warez (i.e. wares) to evade scans and filters by mainstream servers policing the ARPAnet/Internet.
Noun
phishing (uncountable)
- (computing) The malicious act of keeping a false website or sending a false e-mail with the intent of masquerading as a trustworthy entity in order to acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details.
- The act of circumventing security with an alias.
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Translations
malicious act
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Finnish
Declension
| Inflection of phishing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | phishing | phishingit | |
| genitive | phishingin | phishingien | |
| partitive | phishingiä | phishingejä | |
| illative | phishingiin | phishingeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | phishing | phishingit | |
| accusative | nom. | phishing | phishingit |
| gen. | phishingin | ||
| genitive | phishingin | phishingien | |
| partitive | phishingiä | phishingejä | |
| inessive | phishingissä | phishingeissä | |
| elative | phishingistä | phishingeistä | |
| illative | phishingiin | phishingeihin | |
| adessive | phishingillä | phishingeillä | |
| ablative | phishingiltä | phishingeiltä | |
| allative | phishingille | phishingeille | |
| essive | phishinginä | phishingeinä | |
| translative | phishingiksi | phishingeiksi | |
| instructive | — | phishingein | |
| abessive | phishingittä | phishingeittä | |
| comitative | — | phishingeineen | |
Portuguese
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)
Spanish
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