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1 phish, 2 phish, 3 phish….

December 4, 2023

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🚨 Beware of Phishing Attempts: A Quick Reminder 🚨 Phishing relies on emotions, not logic. Recently, an acquaintance got a fishy message threatening account deletion. Classic move to trigger panic and get you clicking. But here’s the scoop: While at first blush this may appear to be almost-kinda-sorta-legit, upon further review it screams phishing attempt. 🕵️‍♂️ Here are a couple things to be on the lookout for: Many phishing attempts…

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Gone ph/fishin’

December 12, 2018

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Recently, I’ve noticed a significant uptick in the number of phishing emails being received by my coworkers. The content has varied in both content and language, but nonetheless, there’s been an uptick. How do you keep curious people from clicking on nefarious email links or attachments, especially those sent from what appear to be familiar email addresses? It’s simple, you educate them. Ideally, we’d start with educating our younglings at…