Gone Phishin'

How hackers trick you into giving up sensitive info

Types of Phishing

In any case, they rely on YOU giving them more info

Deceptive Phishing

- Fake email from Amazon warning of a security threat, the link takes you to amazon.account.com

Spear Phishing

- An email from an old classmate who attatched an old photo on gdrive

CEO fraud

- The head of your office asks you to send him a sensitive document asap

Types of Phishing

Pharming
- You visit gmail on public wifi, but didn't look carefully at the HTTPS certifaction

Dropbox/GDrive Phishing
- dropbox.com asks you to signnin, the cert looks good but you ignore the long URL string.

Spot the phish!

What to do?

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