Consequently, the concepts of deception, impersonation, target, information and scalability are the most important aspects of a phishing definition.
Even the gracious Richard Plepler in receiving his award, managed to contribute two impersonations in gathering information on Charlie Rose: Henry Kissinger and Bill Clinton.
Under the planned crackdown, investigators found guilty of hacking or impersonation to obtain private information will be banned from holding a licence.
Where, I wonder, does Wylie's ego reside, in among the impersonations and the information-gathering and the promotion of other people's brilliance?
We identified the core concepts which the research community agrees are part of phishing, resulting in a consensual definition: 'Phishing is a scalable act of deception whereby impersonation is used to obtain information from a target'.
Therefore, we propose a definition of phishing that comes out of the synthesis of literature and includes all the important concepts that existing definitions have in common: Phishing is a scalable act of deception whereby impersonation is used to obtain information from a target.
Similarly, if a Cloud IDMS follows Identity Federation principle through Hierarchical Storage, then it will limit Unauthorized disclosure of confidential data (A7), Elevation of privileges (A9), Forgery (A10), Identity theft (A12) and Impersonation attack (A13), as the information will be stored in fragments across multiple servers.
We propose a new definition that is based upon current ones, which defines phishing in a comprehensive way and - in our opinion - addresses all important elements of phishing: 'phishing is a scalable act of deception whereby impersonation is used to obtain information from a target'.
Now it is taking that same approach for instances of self-harm, impersonation, and the publishing of private information.
Joe is still awaiting trial for wrongfully using identifying information of another and impersonation.
