Vishing vs Pishing - What's the difference?
vishing | pishing |
A form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.
* 2008 , Gregory B. White, Dwayne Williams, Roger Davis, CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam SY0-201) (page 36)
* 2009 , Ken Dunham, Mobile malware attacks and defense (page 188)
* 2010 , David A. Montague, Essentials of Online Payment Security and Fraud Prevention (page 85)
* 2014 , Nick Wingfield, "
As a noun vishing
is a form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.As a verb pishing is
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(wikipedia vishing)Noun
(-)- Vishing takes advantage of the trust that most people place in the telephone network.
- Within just an hour, a new vishing infrastructure can be configured and put in place to launch a new attack.
- Between 2006 and 2007, the number of vishing identity theft cases rose from 3 percent of theft to 40 percent (Source: Javelin Strategy & Research.)
Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet’s Tactics"
- But there has been less public outreach about similar new types of phone schemes, sometimes called vishing .