e-crime – defining phishing, rock phishing, spear phishing, smishing and typo-squatting
BBC's Chris Vallance interviews Charlie Abrahams of MarkMonitor, about e-crime for iPM
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You may have heard of phishing - but do you really know how it works?
What about typo-squatting? Rock phish? Spear phishing? Smishing? No, I'm not making it up.
The BBC's Chris Vallance interviews Charlie Abrahams of MarkMonitor , about e-crime for iPM (all hail iPM for its interviews and glorious sharing of content) about just a few of the thousand ways hucksters can con you on the web and on your mobile phone.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
