According to Verizon report: - Phishing and pretexting represent 93% of all social breaches - Email was the most common attack vector (96%) - 59% of phishing attacks are financially motivated and - 41% are motivated by espionage Learn how to secure yourself and company from social engineering and phishing emails, prevent data leakage and social breaches. Provided to you by https://relevant.software

1. According to Verizon report:
Email security best practices
Phishing and pretexting represent 93% of all social breaches
Email was the most common attack vector (96%)
59% of phishing attacks are financially motivated and
41% are motivated by espionage
On average, 4% of people will click on the bait in a simulated
phishing campaign and will probably do it in the future.

2. Phishing and
pretexting explained
Phishing is a common email attack that
makes the receiver to click on a
malicious link or open an attachment.
Pretexting is the way of phishing when
someone pretends to be another person.
It usually contains more personal
information like company name, date of
birth or coworkers' names to gain your
trust.

3. Don't trust the sender’s display name
and email
The sender’s email address is of someone you don’t
usually communicate with.
This is an unexpected or unusual email with an
embedded hyperlink or an attachment from someone
you haven’t communicated with recently.
An email is from someone outside your organization
and is not related to your job duties.
An email was sent from someone inside the
organization or from a customer, vendor, or partner
but is very unusual.
The sender’s email address is from a suspicious
domain like apple-contact.com
How to detect phishing email?

4. Keep an eye on the subject
Be careful with attachments
An email with a subject line that is irrelevant or does
not match the message content
An email message is a reply to something you never
sent or requested
The sender included an email attachment that you
were not expecting or that makes no sense in relation
to the email message.
You see an attachment with a possibly dangerous file
type. The only file type that is always safe to
download and open is a .txt file.

5. Don’t believe everything you read
The sender is asking you to click on a link or open an
attachment to avoid a negative consequence or to gain
something of value.
The email is out of the ordinary, or it has bad grammar or
spelling errors.
The sender is asking you to click a link or open up an
attachment that seems odd or illogical.
You have an uncomfortable gut feeling about the
sender’s request to open an attachment or click a link.
The message is asking you to look at a compromising or
embarrassing picture or info of yourself or someone you
know.
You are requested to share personal information like
passwords and logins.

6. Look but don't click
You hover your mouse over a hyperlink that’s displayed
in the email message, but the link-to address is for a
different website.
You received an email that only has long hyperlinks with
no further information, and the rest of the email is
completely blank.
You received an email with a hyperlink that is a
misspelling of a known web site. For instance,
— the “m” is really two
characters — “r” and “n.”

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