Tag Archives: Phishing

How to spot a phishing email

It claims that there is an important meeting, and contains a link for details.  The email may even use your name (so called ‘spear-phishing’).  However, the link provided leads to a fake website designed to capture your login details so … Continue reading

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‘Phishing’ Emails With Your Home Address

This article is currently being drafted, and will be added to over time. In the meantime, Sophos have an article that goes into some detail about what is going on here. Some key points :- Don’t click on the encrypted … Continue reading

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Analysis Of A Phishing Attack

The following is the analysis of a real phishing attack that we have seen, together with some indications of how a phishing attack can be detected. For the impatient, some of those indicators are listed below :- Are you expecting … Continue reading

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Mail Diagnostics: Getting The Original View

When dealing with problematic emails, it is vitally important to get a proper view of the message headers. Mail clients (such as the Google Mail client on the web) typically hide this view, and only show the interesting headers such … Continue reading

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