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Beware of phishing

Phishing is way of imitating the original website or app using a clone site to harvest credentials or spread viruses and malware. Phishing is done in different ways the most advanced type of phishing can bypass the two-step authentication without you knowing. ( to know more on how two-step verification is bypassed click here) Typical phishing method: 1 . In this method the hacker create a clone of website which need to be send to the victim. 2 . He tries to create a website having domain similar to original website. 3 . He then create a e-mail id which seem to be legitimate as a professional one. 4 . Then he sends the web-page to the victim by e-mail. 5 . When the victim open the mail and uses it to login the credentials of the web-page is posted to the hacker. Tips to avoid phishing: 1 . Do not login with the links send through the e-mail or messages from unknown mailer. 2 . Try to take a look at ...