Tips to protect against phising attack
Tips to help protect you from phishing attacks. There’s a reason that phishing attacks are so successful. Millions of malicious messages are sent every day, vast numbers pass through spam filters and at first glance many of them appear genuine. Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report found that a phishing email will catch out 1 in 25 people. That means there’s a good chance that, even in the smallest organisations, at least one employee will be fooled. To ensure that doesn’t happen to you, take a look at some tips for identifying and avoiding phishing attacks. LEARN ABOUT COMMON PHISHING SCAMS Although criminals launch vast numbers of attacks, these generally imitate common issues from well-known organisations, like an order receipt from Amazon, a password reset message from Apple, an account verification from Netflix, a failed payment from PayPal, and so on. If you are aware of the most commonly imitated organisations and the types of messages sent, your alarm bells will...