Taking steps to avoid phishing scams


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 03 May 2017

The APWG says that it recorded or registered over 1.2 million individual phishing attacks over the course of 2016. — AFP Relaxnews

You may think it's easy to spot an email phishing scam, but if, as a report in Fortune outlines, even two companies positioned at the absolute cutting-edge of high-tech progress, can fall prey to this type of fraud – albeit executed on an elaborate scale – maybe it's time to think again.

On April 28, Fortune revealed that the two high-profile companies conned into making payments of over US$100mil (RM432.8mil) were none other than Facebook and Google.

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