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Ways of Detecting Phishing And How We Can Avoid It

How To Detect Phishing And Avoid It As we know Phishing is  the fraudulent practice of sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers. And in this post we will be discussing phishing broadly and we will see ways we can avoid it There are various phishing techniques used by attackers: Embedding a link in an email that redirects your employee to an insecure website that requests sensitive information Installing a Trojan via a malicious email attachment or ad which will allow the intruder to exploit loopholes and obtain sensitive information Spoofing the sender address in an email to appear as a reputable source and request sensitive information Attempting to obtain company information over the phone by impersonating a known company vendor or IT department Some Of The Ways To Avoid Phishing Include: 1. Keep Informed About Phishing Techniques  – New

Tips On Staying Safe On The Internet (Creating strong and complex passwords)

As we already know that the internet has so many danger in the internet, we will be giving tips on how to stay safe. In This Post We Will giving Tips on choosing and creating a strong and complex password  1. Use lots of quirky character types.  One way hackers crack passwords is by using sophisticated password-cracking software to test combinations of numbers, letters and symbols for your credentials. It can require a lot of computing power to do, but for shorter passwords, it’s a pretty reliable hacking method. The more types of weird symbols—like !@$%—that your password has, the greater number of tries a computer has to take to guess your credentials. And some sites have features that block multiple password attempts, meaning the more complex your password is, the more likely a hacker will get locked out before their software guesses the right code. 2. Don’t use dictionary words.  Passwords with common words or phrases ones are the first to fall to increasingly adept passw