Just Some Random Tips Of The Day For Users To Protect Themselves In The Digital World
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on September 7th, 2011
Hackers are more brazened everyday, and as of late we have heard so many stories of their hacks against big and sophisticated institutions such as FBI and partners of FBI and Sony and so on. Although Sony is the older story, but it is still fresh in some people’s minds. Of late, some hackers even go after DNS servers so they could redirect legitimate web traffics to their malicious websites of choice. This is one way to phish for users’ credentials, consequently hackers can unlock users’ web accounts. The legitimate form of phish is phishing, and it means that hackers set up digital traps/hacks to steal credential information from users, but the users may not know they’ve been scammed since the traps/hacks made to…
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