A Survey on Password Stealing Attacks and Its Protecting Mechanism

Abstract

Abstract-People enjoy the convenience of on-line services, however on-line environments might bring several risks. In the on-line communication, the password has a crucial role to secure user personal details. These passwords are taken to be secure and it should be retain in person. The third person might take a password without knowledge of original user and they might do any dishonest activities on the victim's account. The passwords are taken by using anyone of the attack mechanism like Phishing attack, password Stealing Program Attack and etc… The user may use personal details in on-line setting. These personal details should be secured. There are many types of mechanisms available to secure the password and user's information. This paper makes a survey concerning such forms of protection mechanisms and brings awareness to the people.