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04-20-2017, 08:19 AM
You're gonna need some help recognizing this phishing scam
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How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit?*
An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news (http://fortune.com/2017/04/18/google-chrome-phishing-scam/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook), and it has the potential to fool some folks ** matter how many times they inspect a URL for typos.
SEE ALSO: Your internet data is absolutely a national security issue (http://mashable.com/2017/04/03/your-data-is-a-national-security-issue/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Phishing works like this: Some fool sends people an email that asks readers to please click on this link or download this thing. The person sends the link from a URL with a (theoretically) clever typo (think yhaoo.com instead of yahoo.com). But this other kind of phishing scheme — called a homograph attack — sends an email from a URL that looks nearly identical to the real thing, replacing some the letters with similar ones from other alphabets.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/phishing-homograph-attack-identical-letters/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit?*
An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news (http://fortune.com/2017/04/18/google-chrome-phishing-scam/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook), and it has the potential to fool some folks ** matter how many times they inspect a URL for typos.
SEE ALSO: Your internet data is absolutely a national security issue (http://mashable.com/2017/04/03/your-data-is-a-national-security-issue/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Phishing works like this: Some fool sends people an email that asks readers to please click on this link or download this thing. The person sends the link from a URL with a (theoretically) clever typo (think yhaoo.com instead of yahoo.com). But this other kind of phishing scheme — called a homograph attack — sends an email from a URL that looks nearly identical to the real thing, replacing some the letters with similar ones from other alphabets.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/19/phishing-homograph-attack-identical-letters/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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