Basic defence you should have on Phishing!

Phishing … the dangerous scam. So how do we protect ourselves from it?

Before I go on to explaining how we detect a phishing email, there are a few things that we have to keep in mind when dealing with emails.
1) Read carefully all details/contents of official email sent to you by organizations or personnel requesting information from you.
2) Never click on link in Email to bring you to the sites. Cut on paste the link on the Internet Explorer/ Firefox address bar instead.
3) No organization will request you to send your confidential information such as banking ID and password through email.
4) Update your software and browser to anti phishing supported module. Most browser now support anti phishing capablilty.
5) Update your anti virus with anti spoof/phish capability
Now that you have equipped yourself with the basic defence, prepare yourself on the tactics of spotting the phishing mail in my next blog.

** Will be more technical. Good to understand a bit on SMTP header before reading my follow up blog on spotting of phishing mail.**