What is Phishing?
Phishing consists in the attempt to gather personal information from a person in a fraudulent way, normally through emails. The most common desired information is: passwords, e-banking credentials or personal accounts from different services.
One of the most usual Phishing methods is the sending of emails impersonating banks with links to websites where the user is requested to type their passwords and bank account number to check some information. This is illegal, and no bank would ever ask for such details.
How to identify a Phishing attempt?
There are many ways to identify phishing, the most effective ones are:
Don't trust any email that resembles any of a big company that contains typos.
A frequent topic is the existence of technical problems in your account.
They make several security recommendations against threats.
Prizes you might have won,if you have not participated in any contest, be suspicious. No one gives anything for free.
They talk about unusual access to your account.
They attempt to drive the user to take a quick decision, warning them about the consequences of not taking action.
These techniques become more and more advanced, thus the need of being specially careful against this type of fraud.
Here are some tips that will be useful to fight against phishing.
How to fight against Phishing?
Some advice to fight against this method are:
Never type your personal information or passwords by email. No legit communications request information like this, or ask you to log in your account and type it there without any kind of links.
If you suspect of an email being phishing never click on it.
If you want to check if the warning given in the email, type the web address manually.
A good practice is confirming the information using another method, like phone calling the company.
Ignore the emails you suspect are phishing and never reply to them.
Double (or even triple) check the address you are typing. There are many web pages that are identical to a legit website and might be phishing.
Make sure that the address uses a secure connection. You can identify that by making sure the address starts with https:// . Also, most modern browsers will display it in green, or even with a green tag with the name of the company in front of the address.
If you suspect you might have been a victim of phishing, change your password immediately, and contact the company.
¿Qué es un ransomware?
Es un tipo de malware (programa dañino) que restringe el acceso a determinadas partes del sistema, o a sus archivos personales, y para poder recuperar el acceso total al sistema se exige un rescate, normalmente suele consistir en el pago de una gran suma de dinero o criptomonedas.
Nowadays, we can see how often in the networks there are challenges that become viral.
Sometimes they are for good cause like the “Ice Bucket Challenge” where you had to throw buckets of ice water to raise awareness about the ELA. But these challenges do not remain here, there are also other ones that can lead to serious injuries.
From earliest ages, the youngest of the household begin to use devices with Internet access. These devices give the possibility of evolve to teaching, but they can also imply serious dangers of which we have to be aware of both parents and children.
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Today I bring good news to all of you, especially for the little ones at home and their families. There is already a phone number you can call to check your doubts and questions about security and the threats of the internet! It’s a completely free phone number. It has been created to solve your doubts and answer your questions about safety and threats of the internet. It’s aimed not only at parents and educators, but also at kids and teenagers who might need it.
As we already explained on our blog, more specifically in the section dedicated and focused on it, Phishing consists in tricking someone by impersonating a legitimate company, such as a bank or social media website, with the sole purpose of gathering personal or confidential information: passwords, bank accounts credentials, etc.
One of the easiest and fast way to access different apps installed in our devices is through their notifications. These notifications are shown on the notification panel or bar, which give us the latest changes, modifications or news in the apps we have in our devices, when a person leaves a WhatsApp group chat for instance.
According to Oxford, to educate is to give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to someone, especially a child. When it comes to the Internet, educate is teaching, show and guide, never the act of hiding. Secrets make things more attractive, and parents should guide and show their children the good path of the Internet.
How people interact with other peers has changed over time. This has been a fact since the social media phenomenon came into our lives. Now, interacting in real life has been shifted to the background level, people prefer to stay online at home . With the internet boom, the use of computers had been increasing slowly. The arrival of Hotmail was the first stepping stone to make this happen.
The development of new technologies is change our lifestyle. It’s not only changing the elderly people’s lives, now you can practically do bureaucratic paperwork online, and make an online inquiry as well. You don’t need to look for a number in the yellow pages or in the phonebook nor wait with your smartphone until you get an answer back. The internet has revolutionized our way of living and also ours kids’.