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What is a phishing attack?

Hacker sends an electronic message to an unsuspecting under the impression that the message is from a trusted source, the user is fooled into giving his information, that information might include a username, passwords, social security numbers and bank account information.

FACEBOOK

dear user, your facebook account password is about to expire, we urge you to update at
click here if you didnt update your password it may be exterminated permenantly

How to defend against phishing attacks

See if the user is urging you

See if the user have grammatical mistakes

See if the user is using an unproffesional manner.

See if the user is using a trustworthy logo.

DO NOT CLICK THE LINK! It might be a disguise like facebo0k, did you notice the 0 instead of an o?

There are many other types of phishing attacks but this is just an example and hopefully you like my tips.

example of a phishing attack