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Phishing
The email attack: fraudulent messages that look authentic, the difference between spear phishing and whaling, and a real phishing email pulled apart.
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- Phishing as obtaining personal information through fraudulent email
- Why the messages appear to come from a school, bank, CEO or IT support
- Fake links and submission forms that harvest credentials
- Spear phishing — one specific individual, like spearing one fish
- Whaling — targeting people inside a business or government office
- Example 1 walked line by line, then how to gauge authenticity: typos, unofficial documents, false URLs
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