Pishing Attacks in Network Security

In the last few decays, phishing tricks have swiftly grown posing enormous threat to worldwide Internet security. These days, phishing attacks are one of the utmost common and serious threats over internet whereas cyber attackers are trying to steal users personal information regarding their financial assets by using different malwares and social engineering. The usual way of phishing attacks use some electronic messaging like emails or by providing the links that appears to be legitimate sites but actually these sites are malicious and controlled by the attackers. To detect phishing attack at high accuracy is always a crucial and has been great issue of interest. Recently many detection techniques has been introduced which are specifically designed for the detection of phishing with extreme accuracy. In this report the phishing attacks are discuss with some of the techniques which are proposed in various literature