Phishing is:
• Deceptive computer-based means to trick individuals into disclosing sensitive personal information.
• A technique for attempting to acquire sensitive data, such as bank account numbers, through a fraudulent solicitation in email or on a web site, in which the perpetrator masquerades as a legitimate business or reputable person.
• A digital form of social engineering that uses authentic-looking—but bogus—e-mails to request information from users or direct them to a fake Web site that requests information.
• An attack in which the Subscriber is lured (usually through an email) to interact with a counterfeit Verifier/Reputable Person and tricked into revealing information that can be used to masquerade as that Subscriber to the real Verifier/RP.
—National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Security Resource Center “phishing“
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