By Nicla Ivana Diomede, Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Milan What is Phishing? Phishing is a type of fraud aimed at illegally stealing confidential information such as login credentials (username and password), credit card...
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By Sonja Filiposka and Anastas Mishev, respectively head and former head of FINKI CIRT Nowadays phishing attacks are one of the most notorious and dangerous threats to any organisation. It is estimated that the financial impact of phishing attacks could...
By Maria Sole Scollo, IT security expert at Consortium GARR Even if phishing has been for many years now a well-known illegal practice, asking people for their sensitive information is still the most effective way for cyber criminals to get them. A good...
Continues from Demystiphying phishing – Part 1 By Damien Mascré, David Verdin, Laurent Aublet-Cuvelier (RENATER) Phishing aims to steal your secrets. Actually, it is even more malicious than that; it is designed to make you voluntarily hand over...
By Damien Mascré, David Verdin, Laurent Aublet-Cuvelier (RENATER) On the list of the many issues inflicted by emails, phishing appears to be social disease: rare, shameful and unfortunately fatal. Phishing occurs when a message appears to come from one...