9 March, 2020

Poster

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Learn about the most Prominent Ways of Phishing and Social Engineering:

• Trying to contact you with deluding you that they represent an official entity or business company.
• Hacking one of your friends or family's account and sending messages containing malicious attachments.
• Sending links,files or programs and trying to trick you into opening them to control your devices.
• Sending alerts containing links to ask for updating your device, or informing you about winning a prize.

Practical Examples of Phishing and Social Engineering:

• A caller impersonates a technical support officer in an institution, asks you to give them your account information to update your data.
• Hacking your friend's account and you receive a message from their account asking for your information, or financial help.
• Post ads with attractive vacancies and request your personal information to nominate you.
• A mobile message alerts about holding your bank account with a request to open a link to update your data.