This webinar provides an overview of phishing, emphasizing that security is a collective responsibility and highlighting various phishing techniques such as spear phishing, clone phishing, and smshing. It outlines characteristics of phishing attacks and offers identification tips, warning against generic greetings and unusual URLs. While no single solution exists for preventing phishing, implementing the right precautions and security measures can enhance protection against these threats.

1. What is Phishing?

2. This webinar will help us understand:

3. What is a Social Engineering attack?
Security is Everyone's Responsibility – If you see something fishy, do something about it!

4. What is Phishing?
An article in Forbes in August 2014 argues that
the reason phishing problems persist even after a
decade of anti-phishing technologies being sold
is that phishing is "a technological medium to
exploit human weaknesses" and that technology
cannot fully compensate for human weaknesses.
Security is Everyone's Responsibility – If you see something fishy, talk & do something about it!

5. Notable Phishing Attacks
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Source – Wikipedia (Article – Phishing)

6. Types of Phishing Attacks

7. Types of Phishing Attacks
Spear
Phishing
Clone
Phishing
Clone phishing is a type of
phishing attack where a hacker
tries to clone a website that his
victim usually visits. The cloned
website usually asks for login
credentials, mimicking the real
website.

8. Types of Phishing Attacks
Whaling

9. Types of Phishing Attacks
Voice
Phishing
SmShing
A phishing attack wherein a
victim receives an SMS that
claims to be from a reputable
source and asks for their
personal information.

10. How to Identify a Phishing Attack

11. How to Identify a Phishing Attack
1) Generic Greeting
2) Fake Sender’s Address
3) False Sense of Urgency
4) Unusual URLs
5) Emails that appear like a
webpage
6) Spelling and Grammatical
Errors

12. How to Avoid Phishing Attacks

13. How to Avoid Phishing Attacks (Contd..)

14. How to Avoid Phishing Attacks (Contd..)

15. Quick Heal Anti-phishing Security Features:
automatic protection against threats such as
phishing, identity theft, key loggers, etc.

16. Quick Heal Anti-phishing Security Features:

17. Quick Heal Anti-phishing Security Features:

18. Key Message!
There is no silver bullet for
phishing attacks or cybercrime
for that matter. But taking the
right precautionary measures,
seeking help from the right
authorities, and using the right
security solution, do place us at
a safer spot.

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20. Content sources:
https://security.intuit.com/phishing.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
http://blog.lifestore.aol.com/2013/01/07/smshing-or-smishing/
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/phishing-and-social-engineering-techniques/
http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-symptoms.aspx