Glossary term
What is Phishing?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Phishing" means: A fake message that tries to trick you into clicking, sharing a secret or paying. It is taught in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals. Related terms include Salt, SQL injection, Hash and Cross-site scripting (XSS). Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Phishing?
A fake message that tries to trick you into clicking, sharing a secret or paying.
Where is Phishing taught?
Phishing is defined in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
Which lessons cover Phishing?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals, lesson 3.2: Phishing and Social Engineering
Which terms are related to Phishing?
Next to Phishing in the course glossaries: Salt, SQL injection, Hash, Cross-site scripting (XSS), Encryption, Authentication and authorization, HTTP and HTTPS and Session.
SaltSQL injectionHashCross-site scripting (XSS)EncryptionAuthentication and authorizationHTTP and HTTPSSession
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Phishing?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals: No security, networking or programming experience is needed.