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Phishing (Email), Smishing (SMS/Text Messages), and Vishing (Voice) are all standard industry terms, though obviously phishing is most well known. Then there's
by wrayjustin 1y ago
Phishing (Email), Smishing (SMS/Text Messages), and Vishing (Voice) are all standard industry terms, though obviously phishing is most well known.
Then there's even subcategories that further define some of these, like Spear Phishing, Whaling.
The industry loves its fun naming.
- airstrike 1y ago"Phishing" isn't limited to email
- jerrythegerbil 1y ago[flagged]
- gpm 1y agoThat's not my understanding, or wikipedia's [1] understanding, of the term. Phishing is the general category of tricking people into telling you things they shouldn't. Email phishing, voice phishing (vishing), sms phising, and so on are subcategories. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing Etymologically "phreak" and "fishing" both have nothing to do with email, "phreak" is "phone freak" and I believe it originally described messing with the tones that controlled the telephone system...
- jerrythegerbil 1y agoThat’s my exact point. Just because you repeatedly see it used a certain way by non-practitioners to generalize for simplified communication doesn’t mean it’s the correct usage, and leads to the exact confusion I’m attempting to clarify for you. Phishing is by default email. It’s varying mediums are subcategories. Bottom paragraph of first section of the very same Wikipedia article. “Phishing techniques and vectors include email spam, vishing (voice phishing), targeted phishing (spear phishing, whaling), smishing (SMS), quishing (QR code), cross-site scripting, and MiTM 2FA attacks.”
- airstrike 1y agoPhishing is not by default email
- lostlogin 1y agoThat’s lucky. Putting ‘ishing’ on the end of something email related doesn’t work very well.
- Razengan 1y ago> Smishing uh that's something completely different (and not Monty Python)
- mmaunder 1y agoNever heard of vishing. I’m in the industry.
- saithound 1y agoWrong industry. It is primarily the "sell anti-phishing training to enterprise employees" industry that uses these terms.
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- antonymoose 1y agoI was worked in an anti Phishing / brand protection firm back in 2012 and we had Vishing and Smishing terminology baked in the to projects back then.
- Ekaros 1y agoWhy is it not emishing with email?