Don’t take the bait—spot phishing fast If you use email, you most likely heard about Phishing attacks. Although it sounds just like Fishing, it’s not as relaxing. If you’ve been phished, you’re going to have a bad day. If you caught a fish, you’re going to be smiling. Why call it phishing? The idea is that the hacker sends a baited email to the target user and hopes that the target takes the bait. Just like the bait in fishing is supposed to resemble something that the fish wants, the bait in phishing is masked as something that the user
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When traffic turns into a weapon A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is when an attacker attempts to make a site unavailable to users by sending so much traffic to it that the site cannot respond. The idea is to disrupt the normal operations of a server or network with a cyber attack on that server or network. This cyber attack is coming from one source, such as the attackers computer. There are different types of DoS attacks, including a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which uses multiple sources to attack a network or server. Recently, nearly all DoS