How to prevent phishing and pharming

Eventhough phishing and pharming as well as many other issues with computers won't be solved, there is a way to prevent them.
When you receive an e-mail from your bank, or any other company asking for your information, try to type the address shown in the e-mail into your search bar, and if it does ask you for your information the e-mail is real, if not then that mail was a hacker trying to steal your personal information.
If you're suspicious that there's a virus in your computer, make sure you install a strong anti-virus. Also if you're going to a website make sure that it starts with https, and that it has a close padlock icon in the site bar.

What are phishing and pharming?

You probably heard about these topics on your ICT class, but for those who don't know, phishing and pharming are ways in which hackers can enter to your private information.

 Phishing often carries out via e-mail, sometimes you recieve an e-mail from a company declaring that you have to ingress or update information, however this could be a trap from ahacker that wants to steal and use your personal information.

Pharming also attempts to steal your information by tampering with the DNS server (a software that converts an internet address into an IP address to connect to the site), either because the user installed a virus without knowing (a troyan), or because the hacker poisoned the DNS server, which causes that the user is redirected to a fake website.