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Don’t Get Hooked! 5 Essential Security Tips to Combat Holiday Phishing

Duo's Security Blog

While we tend to associate phishing emails more with our personal accounts, attacks targeting our work identities whether through socially engineered phishing, brute force, or another form, are very common. An email containing a QR code constructed from Unicode characters (defanged) identified by Cisco Talos.

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The Phight Against Phishing

Digital Shadows

The social engineering aspect around phishing works because humans want to be helpful, informed, paid well, get stuff for free sometimes, and generally not end up on the wrong side of management. Unfortunately, aspects of really good social engineering prey on one or more of these human traits (or faults).