Phishing and Communication Channels
A Guide to Identifying and Mitigating Phishing Attacks
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Beschreibung
Mitigate the dangers posed by phishing activities, a common cybercrime carried out through email attacks. This book details tools and techniques to protect against phishing in various communication channels.
The aim of phishing is to fraudulently obtain sensitive credentials such as passwords, usernames, or social security numbers by impersonating a trustworthy entity in a digital communication.
Phishing attacks have increased exponentially in recent years, and target all categories of web users, leading to huge financial losses to consumers and businesses. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 22% of all breaches in 2019 involved phishing. And 65% of organizations in the USA experience a successful phishing attack.This book discusses the various forms of phishing attacks, the communications most often used to carry out attacks, the devices used in the attacks, and the methods used to protect individuals and organizations from phishing attacks.
What You Will Learn
- Understand various forms of phishing attacks, including deceptive, DNS-based, search engine, and contents injection phishing
- Know which communications are most commonly used, including email, SMS, voice, blog, wifi, and more
- Be familiar with phishing kits (what they are) and how security experts utilize them to improve user awareness
- Be aware of the techniques that attackers most commonly use to request information
- Master the best solutions (including educational, legal, technical) to protect against phishing attacks
Mitigate the dangers posed by phishing activities, a common cybercrime carried out through email attacks. This book details tools and techniques to protect against phishing in various communication channels.
The aim of phishing is to fraudulently obtain sensitive credentials such as passwords, usernames, or social security numbers by impersonating a trustworthy entity in a digital communication.
Phishing attacks have increased exponentially in recent years, and target all categories of web users, leading to huge financial losses to consumers and businesses. According to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), 22% of all breaches in 2019 involved phishing. And 65% of organizations in the USA experience a successful phishing attack.This book discusses the various forms of phishing attacks, the communications most often used to carry out attacks, the devices used in the attacks, and the methods used to protect individuals and organizations fromphishing attacks.
What You Will Learn
- Understand various forms of phishing attacks, including deceptive, DNS-based, search engine, and contents injection phishing
- Know which communications are most commonly used, including email, SMS, voice, blog, wifi, and more
- Be familiar with phishing kits (what they are) and how security experts utilize them to improve user awareness
- Be aware of the techniques that attackers most commonly use to request information
- Master the best solutions (including educational, legal, technical) to protect against phishing attacks
Who This Book Is For
Security professionals who need to educate online users, especially those who deal with banks, online stores, payment systems, governments organizations, social networks and blogs, IT companies, telecommunications companies, and others. Thesecondary audience includes researchers working to develop novel strategies to fight against phishing activities and undergraduate and graduate instructors of cybersecurity.Helps you identify different types of phishing attacks without installing any anti-phishing software Discusses how to mitigate dangers posted by phishing activities Shows how to implement the latest methods to protect organizations and individuals from phishing attacks
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Gunikhan Sonowal
Themen in »Phishing and Communication Channels«
Phishing Social engineering attack Spear phishing Smishing (sms phishing) Vishing(voice phishing) Whaling Search engine phishing DNS-based phishing Pharming attack Content-Injection Phishing Man-in-the-middle Attacks Cyber attack Information security
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“It covers a wide range of topics. … Each chapter tackles a very different angle on phishing, which means the topics are covered in a succinct, telegraphic way: many concepts are presented as one or two paragraphs, very often fitting several of them on the same page. … The intended audience is intermediate; experts in different areas of computing will benefit from reading about their respective interests, but the book assumes an introductory to intermediate level throughout.” (Gunnar Wolf, Computing Reviews, January 12, 2023)
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