Safer Web Internet Is Real Or Myth?

Safer web internet is real only when you are cautious and have knowledge of differentiating in fake and real world. 99% hacking and data theft is done because of lack of user knowledge.

There are various lines of attacks including phishing, hacking, spoofing. Phishing is the most easiest method through which hackers can get user id, password and credit cards.

Basically, there are three types of phishing:

 

1) Spear Phishing- In spear Phishing the evident source is email. The hacker targets a particular enterprise or a particular group as their target instead of randomly sending bulk mails.
2) Clone Phishing: A type of phishing attack which is done by sending harmful attachment or a link on recipient mail address which is further used to create an almost identical or cloned email.
Read the biggest example of clone phishing recently happened with the Flipkart CEO .

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3) Whaling: Whaling attack emails comprise of a legal summon, consumer complaint, or managerial issues that require an urgent reply from the receiver.

How to protect your data from getting hacked

The most prominent way of getting data hacked is either by social media or by email. So, these are the protection measures-

1) Do not trust any unknown site asking for your credentials.

2) Use spam free, anti-virus, anti spoof, anti-phishing and well secured email server if you are sharing confidential data over internet. Watch 8 most powerful security features that your mail server should posses.

3) Set firewall protection as it prevents browser from hijacks.

Hope you now understands that web security is possible even today only with some tips & tricks

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