What Are Smishing, Phishing, and Vishing?
The Really Useful Podcast · Christian Cawley, Gavin Phillips
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Show Notes
One of the main purposes of this podcast is to help you get to grips with the risks scammers pose. As such, this week's show sheds light on phishing and its variant scams: smishing, vishing, and quishing. What are they, and how can you spot these scams?
Before we get to that, we've got the following tech news that matters:
- Elon Musk says Neuralink implanted wireless brain chip (BBC)
- TikTok pulls Taylor Swift and The Weeknd's music (BBC)
- Spotify's content filter fails to block explicit lyrics in dozens of hits (BBC)
We bring you these tips and tricks:
The show closes with the following recommendations:
Christian Cawley and Gavin Phillips host this podcast. You can contact them on Twitter: @thegadgetmonkey and @gavinspavin, with your suggestions for future topics. Oh, and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts!
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