Showing posts with label stay safe online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stay safe online. Show all posts

Monday, 21 March 2016

Beware the typo...and the firesheep...to stay safe online

Phishing scams rely to a large extent on people not spotting small typos and therefore believing that an email or website is legitimate..............a clear example would be Google.om (which is an Oman registered domain). Believing a communication to be legitimate links are clicked, files downloaded, passwords shared etc which leads to financial loss or worse.

A recent review of the free hacking tools easily available online (passwords crackers, wireless hacking tools including the beautifully named firesheep, packet sniffers, keystroke loggers etc etc) re-emphasise the need to take online security seriously and check online communication with great care.