If it looks wrong, it probably is wrong. Phishing often looks, well, fishy. If you find typos in an email supposedly from your bank, then this should be a red flag. The same goes for all-capitals in the email’s subject and a few too many exclamation marks.Check the email address carefully. If you regularly receive emails fromContinueContinue reading “How to Spot a Phishing Link?”
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How Devastating can a Cyber Attack be for the Victim
How to Protect Yourself Online Cyber attacks are something that happens frequently in our society. We see banks, companies, and such institutions getting attacked by hackers to steal, change or destroy information. Cyberattacks cost billions of dollars in cost to these institutions.And these attacks can have negative impact on businesses, nations and even individuals. PuttingContinueContinue reading “How Devastating can a Cyber Attack be for the Victim”
Warning: Emirates survey giving away 500 tickets is a scam
A post is doing the rounds on social media, offering 500 free tickets to UAE residents Fake Emirates Ticket Giveaway ad in facebook Source: Gulfnews Link : https://gulfnews.com/business/aviation/warning-emirates-survey-giving-away-500-tickets-is-a-scam-1.1546495536421 Dubai: UAE residents have been warned of fake online surveys that promise to give away hundreds of free tickets from Emirates. The Dubai-based carrier issued an alertContinueContinue reading “Warning: Emirates survey giving away 500 tickets is a scam”
Is you privacy safe online? Who has your personal Information??
Today, the whole world is connected and available within your fingertips with the help of internet. Even your day to day objects, or physical devices, or any device that can communicate and interact over the internet has a lot of information available within. The expansion of this communication and interaction over the internet, with yourContinueContinue reading “Is you privacy safe online? Who has your personal Information??”
Social Media : How to stay safe Online??
The threats to Internet have been also posed to the social networking sites. In social networks people tend to reduce the original alert and this makes it easier for malware to spread. In this blog we study the threats to social networks in recent years and analyze the targets what the attackers want and theContinueContinue reading “Social Media : How to stay safe Online??”
Top frauds and scams in 2018 and how to avoid them in future – an overview from FTC
Scammers use clever schemes to defraud millions of people every year. They often combine new technology with old tricks to get people to send money or give out personal information. According to FTC’s analytics, over 3 million fraud cases were reported in the year 2018. They collected 1.4 million data from various sources and found outContinueContinue reading “Top frauds and scams in 2018 and how to avoid them in future – an overview from FTC”
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