DANGER: How to Spot Common Phishing Attacks
Those of us in the U.S. have been hearing a lot about “hacked” emails lately. But in fact it appears the now-infamous John Podesta email hack wasn’t a “hack” at all. It was a phishing attack. And Podesta and his staff fell for it. What Is a Phishing Attack? Phishing is “the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details, often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.” In Podesta’s case, attackers