Security Awareness - Phishing, Vishing and Smishing

Jul 03, 2024

Security Awareness - Phishing, Vishing and Smishing

Those are three made-up words that refer to the way bad actors may try to trick you and steal your information. Phishing uses email as the primary hook, vishing uses voice phone calls to do the same and smishing uses text messages (SMS) to interact. The latter two are growing in popularity because they remove the traditional Information Security buffer between the bad guys and the potential victim. More information on smishing can be found at https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/text-messaging-attacks-smishing-saga/