phishing

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. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Homophone: fishing

• Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ

phishing (uncountable)

1. (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.
2. The act of circumventing security with an alias.

• spoofing

• smishing
• vishing

• social engineering

• phish
• phisher
• spearphishing

phishing

1. present participle and gerund of phish

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiʃiŋ/, [ˈfiʃiŋ]

phishing (slang)

1. phishing

• verkkourkinta
• kalastelu

• “phishing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

phishing m (uncountable)

1. (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)

Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiʃin/ [ˈfi.ʃĩn]
• Rhymes: -iʃin

phishing m (uncountable)

1. (computing) phishing

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