How to Spot Fishing Messages and Spoofs
May 14, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under How To, Science & Technology, Software & Online Apps
This may be a little basic for some of our readers, but I thought I’d take a minute and talk about some Internet security for a minute. As this site is dedicated to uncovering great stuff on the Internet, we’re also aware that there’s plenty of opportunities to uncover some less than stellar sites and programs as well. One of these dangers is called “phishing”.
In our context, phishing is defined as:
“Phishing” is a form of Internet fraud that aims to steal valuable information such as credit cards, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. From Digitalstrategy.govt.nz
and the security website F-Secure …read more
