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Pharming

Pharming is an attack in which a user can be fooled into entering sensitive data such as a password or credit card number into a malicious website that impersonates a legitimate web site.

The attacker does not have to rely on having the user click a link in an email to deceive them—even if the user correctly enters a URL (web address) into a browser's address bar, the attacker can still redirect the user to a malicious web site.

Secured protocol (https://)

Opus Bank's web site uses a secure connection to prevent other web sites from impersonating it. Typically, the https:// web protocol is used on a login page to allow the user to verify the web site's identity. If an attacker attempts to impersonate a PC web site, the user will receive a message from the browser indicating that the web site's "certificate" does not match the address being visited.

Security alert warnings

You should NEVER click "Yes" in response to such a window, otherwise you might become involved with a pharming attack.