Phishing and Communication Channels: A Guide to Identifying and Mitigating Phishing Attacks

Mitigate the dangers posed by phishing activities, a common cybercrime carried out through email attacks. This book details tools and techniques to protect against phishing in various communication channels.

The aim of phishing is to fraudulently obtain sensitive credentials such as passwords, usernames, or social security numbers by impersonating a trustworthy entity in a digital communication.

This book discusses the various forms of phishing attacks, the communications most often used to carry out attacks, the devices used in the attacks, and the methods used to protect individuals and organizations from phishing attacks.

What You Will Learn

• Understand various forms of phishing attacks, including deceptive, DNS-based, search engine, and contents injection phishing
• Know which communications are most commonly used, including email, SMS, voice, blog, wifi, and more
• Be familiar with phishing kits (what they are) and how security experts utilize them to improve user awareness
• Be aware of the techniques that attackers most commonly use to request information
• Master the best solutions (including educational, legal, technical) to protect against phishing attacks