Phishing is a type of online identity theft. Phishers use fraudulent email and websites to trick users into revealing personal information such as credit card numbers, passwords, account data, and social security numbers. Phishers also impersonate people to ask friends and relatives for monetary "help."
Malware is malicious software that takes over computers (including devices like smart phones) in order to spread itself to other computers. Malware can also infect computers and turn them into botnets, which then allows cybercriminals to control the computer and use it for their own purposes, often without the owner even realizing it.
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media.
Our technology is built upon pioneering research done at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and funded in part by Bank of America, Facebook, and eBay.
