Most people do not expect to become victims of a phishing attack. Finding out that your accounts were compromised in a phishing attack is scary. You will feel shocked and confused. You won’t believe that it happened to you. You’ll ask yourself, ‘how was I phished’? It seems so obvious now, right? No need to beat yourself up over it, now is the time to take action to fix it. Stay calm and try not to panic, you can still take steps to recover your account and minimize the damage....
The growth of mobile devices has increased the number of ways phishing continues to exploit unsuspecting users. More people than ever own a mobile device. People are on their phones all the time. You no longer only check your email from a computer. We read our inboxes on our phones and tablets every day. While mobile devices make the internet more accessible, they open up new opportunities for phishers and spammers....
Knowing how to protect yourself from phishing can seem difficult and overwhelming at first. The cyber security industry uses lots of buzzwords that make simple issues a lot more complicated than they really are. However, phishing is a straightforward type of attack. In simple terms, phishing is an attack that attempts to steal a user’s password or personal information. Phishing often occurs by email but is now very common over text....
Phishing attacks are really simple. The simplicity of phishing is one of the reasons it continues to be such a big problem. Phishing is really easy to pull off, even for the most novice attackers. Setting up a phishing website can take less than an hour and doesn’t require a ton of technical skill. It is actually really easy to find tutorials for setting up a phishing website just by googling....
Phishing can be very tricky to spot if you are not careful. Not knowing how to identify phishing leaves you vulnerable to having your passwords or credit card stolen. As with anything, a little bit of practice can go a long way. Once you’ve spent a little time training yourself to spot spam texts and phishing emails you can do it with ease.
“I know it when I see it....