Don’t get yourself phished!
One of the most prevalent malicious attacks on computer systems today is called PHISHING.
Phishing is where sensitive information – such as passwords, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. – is obtained under false premises. The usual modus operandi is for a site to pretend to be a trustworthy site which then ask for users’ personal information. Some also disguise themselves as emails that tell the recipient that he or she won x amount of money in a contest they never heard of. The recipient is then required to log in or register to a site, which then records all the information inputted by the clueless person.
So before you commit to putting down sensitive information on forms on the web, make sure that the site is trustworthy – and always be suspicious of too-good-to-be-true offers that suddenly show up.
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