Deceptive phishing is the most common phishing email attack. So, odds are you’ve received a few in your inbox.
Phishing is a cybercrime that uses deceptive methods to get unsuspecting users to divulge sensitive information such as passwords and bank account credentials. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most popular forms of online fraud.
Read more on Deceptive Phishing: What to Look for and Prevention…
Nobody is free from phishing attacks, and the threats these can pose to your own safety are much bigger than you might imagine. You don’t need to have your credit card number compromised to realize that there is a problem that merits as much attention as it can receive.
This website aims to become the one spot on the Web in which sites that are involved in fraudulent activities are denounced. Phish Tank is a true collaborative clearing house, and anybody can submit each single phishing site that he has the misfortune of coming across. The most recent submission can be seen on the main page, and you can even sign for a mailing list and be always informed about the latest additions to the site.
For its part, developers are actually provided with an open API that they can readily employ to integrate anti-phishing data into their very own applications. In that sense, the Phish Tank website does all that it is possible to do in order to equip both members of the general public and developers with the resources for fighting phishing to the best of their capabilities.
A sign of popularity of a service – any service – is that junk and spammy contents start being commonplace. They go from being the exception to the rule, and such has happened to Twitter – the amount of junk that is put your way is nothing short of infuriating.
That is mainly forthcoming from accounts which are not human at all, but rather computer-aided or even fully automated.
These fake accounts can lower the appeal so considerably that newcomers might be entirely turned off. That is why free tools like TweetBlock are important – they provide everybody with the means for fighting spam back without budging an inch. It features a tool for scanning followers that blocks the offending ones in one fell swoop. It does so by taking into account a plethora of behavioral issues such as the number of people who is followed, the number of tweets, the frequency of tweeting…
As a result, this new tool makes for freeing Twitter (and the Internet as a whole by extension) from the clutter we all associate with spammers and phishing gangs. If you are new to tweeting, or have been doing so for some time already this will help you have a more enjoyable time – for free.
Read more on TwitBlock.org – Keeping Twitter Accounts Free Of Spam…
Email Aliasing is a new way of preventing spam because it only allows sites that are approved to email your email “alias” for that site (e.g.
[email protected]). Silverfeed allows you to create aliases and easily manage email aliases for all the sites you use via the site or browser plugins. All approved emails are forwarded to your personal account so that it works with any email service; corporate, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. If you respond it goes back to Silverfeed and is sent to the recipients from your alias — so Silverfeed is a firewall protecting your personal address. In other words, the site allows you to easily filter what you want in your inbox. There is no need for you to leave your email with big companies anymore, just use your alias and control what they know about you and your email account.
