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. Compare other respelling slang like phat and phreak. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ Homophone: fishing 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. Hypernyms: spoofing; cybercrime; scam, fraud Hyponyms: smishing, vishing Holonym: social engineering The act of circumventing security with an alias. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== phish phisher spearphishing ==== Translations ==== === Verb === phishing present participle and gerund of phish == Czech == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English phishing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈfɪʃɪŋk] === Noun === phishing m inan phishing ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “phishing”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026 == Finnish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English phishing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiʃiŋ/, [ˈfiʃiŋ] Rhymes: -iʃiŋ === Noun === phishing (slang) phishing ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== verkkourkinta kalastelu === Further reading === “phishing”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023 == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English phishing. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -iʃĩ, -iʃĩɡ Hyphenation: phi‧shing === Noun === phishing m (uncountable) (computer security) phishing (criminal activity consisting of sending unsolicited emails whose purpose is to induce the user to provide personal and/or financial data) === Further reading === “phishing”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “phishing”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English phishing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiʃin/ [ˈfi.ʃĩn] Rhymes: -iʃin Syllabification: phi‧shing === Noun === phishing m (uncountable) (computing) phishing ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.