Phishing Scams Even Fool Tech Nerds—Here’s How to Avoid Them
Phishing Scams Even Fool Tech Nerds—Here’s How to Avoid Them
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 21, 20175m 54s
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Show Notes
You know not to click on links in sketchy emails. Everybody knows that. And yet, people fall for these phishing attacks all the time. Case in point: The FBI suspects a phishing email is how the Russian hackers who were indicted this week got into Yahoo. Ditto for the breach of the Democratic National Committee, and the Sony Pictures hack. In fact, there’s currently a Gmail phishing scam going around that even super savvy techies are falling for.
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