Net Safety PH

What exactly is Phishing? It smells fishy, sounds like fishing, and it is exactly fishing. Knowing how social Filipinos are, almost everyone doesn't like being late in knowing who's an item in the office or who likes who, or what successful neighbors are doing to be successful. And so, we non-chalantly fish for information about it. That is exactly the core function of Phishing. It is to gather Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or information which can be used to identify individuals.

You've probably already read us saying we prefer browsers over custom apps. And there's a really good reason for it. And today we'll dive into one those reason. Less than twelve hours of the time that this post is written, waves of articles online warned users that there is a widespread Phishing scam targeting Gmail users. The reality is that it's not only Gmail that is subject to this attack. All emails are. But for the time being, we'll use Gmail as a sample to illustrate a core problem. Yes, you may have guessed it already. People's mindset, misunderstanding technology and its wrong use.

Just the other day, we posted Attack Example - Phishing - SMS Based - Smishing and yesterday someone in Cagayan de Oro using facebook alerted people of a Scam Modus Operandi (M.O.) Do we think it's a scam? Yes it is.

There are many myths surrounding Internet Safety and we'll be talking about them as a series of articles to dispel it. All in hopes to help bring in better internet usage habits for every Filipino. First an overview and later on, a separate article for each of the myths.