PHISHING ATTACKS:RAISING AWARENESS AND DEFENDING

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack that can be used to steal sensitive and important information and details from unsuspecting entities, either organizations or individuals. This document describes how phishing attacks are carried out, what protection techniques are needed to counter such attacks, and uses his MINDSPACE framework at the University of Bournemouth to test such attacks. It gives you an overview of how to increase your awareness. That is, protection technology is grouped into three layers . Automated tools, training and skills, and multi-factor authentication. Using the MINDSPACE framework to raise awareness found that approximately 50% of targeted students were unaware of his phishing attack and the tactics used to carry it out .

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