Welcome to the sixth blog in our series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. Today, we’ll be summarizing what we’ve learned about phishing. Bullet Point Summary Social Engineering is the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information; phishing is using email to do social engineering.… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 6) – Summary

Welcome to the fifth blog in our series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. Today, we’ll be discussing spear phishing. Bullet Point Summary Spear phishing is when a fraudulent email is sent appearing to be legitimately sent by the person (for example, an attacker sending an email… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 5)

Welcome to the fourth blog in a series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. Today, we’ll be one of the theories (which we subscribe to) of why emotion causes us to not think critically, Amygdala hijacking. Bullet Point Summary Emotion is the enemy. When we feel… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 4)

Welcome to the third blog in a series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. Today, we’ll be discussing how to analyze links, and more importantly, while it’s important to be able to analyze a link, why it’s more important to understand emotion to prevent a hackers success in… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 3)

Welcome to the second blog in a series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. We will be discussing the elements behind how hackers are trying to exploit you, and we will be discussing the techniques and other preventative controls you can take to protect yourself. Today, we will be discussing the… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 2)

Welcome to the first blog in a series of blogs discussing phishing and social engineering – and ways of protecting yourself from hackers. We will be discussing the elements behind how hackers are trying to exploit you, and we will be discussing the techniques and other preventative controls you can take to protect yourself. In today’s blog, we’ll be discussing… Continue reading Phishing – Are you Susceptible? (Part 1)