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Phishing Attacks — is there any way to prevent them?

June 13, 2016 Mike Ellis 0 Comments

{Editor’s Note: Today we conclude our look at Phishing Attacks, and focus on what we, as internet users, can do to prevent receiving them at all. Click the links to read part one and part two of this series.} Phishing Attacks — is there any way to prevent them? Written by Mike Ellis. Over the […]

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Phishing Attacks — what are they?

June 9, 2016 Mike Ellis 4 Comments

phish – verb “to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.” ~ from dictionary.com In the connected world that […]

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