phishing
English
Etymology
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
- Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
Noun
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
Related terms
Translations
malicious act
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Verb
phishing
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Noun
phishing
Declension
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 | |
abessive | phishingittä | phishingeittä | |
instructive | — | phishingein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English phishing.
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
- (computer security) phishing (the act of sending email that falsely claims to be from a legitimate organisation)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English phishing.
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
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- Rhymes:English/ɪʃɪŋ
- English lemmas
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- English uncountable nouns
- en:Computing
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- en:Computer security
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from English
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Computer security
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
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- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
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- es:Computing