Phishing Threats
Every company is exposed to sophisticated, targeted attacks designed to gain continuous access to critical information. Severity and occurrence of these activities increase the risk of Data Loss and compromise of company Intellectual Property and sensitive information.
Increasingly advanced threats, malware, phishing and other social engineering techniques require protection beyond passwords for critical assets and privileged access, strong data protection capabilities, requires more visibility and correlation of log and machine data as well as analytics.
In this blog you will find information how to recognize and protect from phishing threats.
“Phishing is a form of fraud in which the attacker tries to learn information such as login credentials or account information by masquerading as a reputable entity or person in email, IM or other communication channels.”
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Source: TechTarget
How to Spot a Phish
Phishing emails tend to take advantage of your emotions to draw you into doing things you shouldn’t. To prevent it, you have to pay attention to
- Greed — tempt you with reward or prize for your hard work
- Urgency — rush you into action, that you don’t have time for right decision
- Curiosity — promising something
- Fear — threaten or scare you into taking action
What you should check in an email message to know if it could be a real phishing attack
Source: PhishMe, Inc.
Phishing and Social Media
Phishing attacks can also arrive in your favorite social media sites. But it is more than just a message arriving in your news feed or private message service. In infographic below, you can find some key facts and figures about attackers using social media and the information you share to target users with more personalized information.
Don’t take the bait!
more:
http://www.techtarget.com/network
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx
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