phishing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
Noun[edit]
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.
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
malicious act
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Verb[edit]
phishing
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Noun[edit]
phishing
Declension[edit]
Inflection of phishing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 |
Possessive forms of phishing (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | phishingini | phishingimme |
2nd person | phishingisi | phishinginne |
3rd person | phishinginsä |
Synonyms[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English phishing.
Noun[edit]
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English phishing.
Noun[edit]
phishing m (uncountable)
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- es:Computing