McAfee say that 80% of people are caught by phishing
McAfee have a good graphic to help you spot phishing here
More Anti Phishing
//Category: Advice
//Can you spot a phish?
//You can try your phishing skills at a McCafe page here
It’s Safer Internet Day!
//Did you know there was one?
More details here: http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/
And there’s a good site with general advice on just about everything internet and computerwise: https://www.getsafeonline.org/
Relax over Christmas and New Year (but not totally).
//This is the time when we all get to have a well earned break to relax and enjoy ourselves.
But watch out and don’t get too relaxed…
Everybody shops online – so be careful about fake shopping sites and phishing emails pretending to come from online retailers.
When using links check the site has a padlock in the address bar that says it’s genuine and check my phishing guide about emails here.
Let’s not spend the days after New Year undoing the damage from some crooks.
Have a good one!
More good advice here
Phishing
//Hardly a day goes by without another email trying get our help to do something bad.
I wrote a simple guide on how to avoid them here.