- At a glance:
| Status: | tentative — if this lecture interests you, please contact TFN |
| Admits: | open to everyone, including non-members |
| Cost: | no charge |
| Where: | TBD |
| When: | spring/2013 |
| Format: | single lecture |
| Preparation: | some preparation recommended |
| Web page: | TBA |
- Audience:
People who receive email from the Internet and who want to be better
forearmed against phish.
- Lecturer:
Iain Calder
often helps TFN members who have received or been duped by phish.
He is regularly asked about the legitimacy of received email messages,
and handles compromised account situations and threats to TFN security.
- Description:
It is easy to identify phish, once you know how. This lecture will
touch on who sends phish and what they do with the results. It will
focus on the techniques used in phish to gain your confidence and on
the tell-tale signs that distinguish a phish from a legitimate message.
We will examine some real world examples, from TFN's phish archive.
- Preparation:
If possible, read the lecture's web page before attending. It will
give you a head start on the topics we will be discussing.
- About phish:
A phish is an attempt to fraudulently elicit confidential information.
For example, a phish could take the form of an email message that
pretends to be from your email provider, that requests your password,
and that threatens you with account termination unless you respond.
Phish have become very prevalent in the last decade. Each month at
Toronto Free-Net, we see several phish that target TFN members.
