phishing
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See also: 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
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
malicious act
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Verb
phishing
- present participle and gerund of phish
Czech
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing m inan
Declension
Declension of phishing (velar masculine inanimate)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | phishing | phishingy |
| genitive | phishingu | phishingů |
| dative | phishingu | phishingům |
| accusative | phishing | phishingy |
| vocative | phishingu | phishingy |
| locative | phishingu | phishinzích |
| instrumental | phishingem | phishingy |
Further reading
- “phishing”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing (slang)
Declension
| Inflection of phishing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Further reading
- “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
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
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 Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “phishing”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English phishing.
Pronunciation
Noun
phishing m (uncountable)
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.