Secure Email Handling

In this lesson, we will talk about what an email phishing is? After that we, will provide an overview of the risks and consequences associated with phishing attacks. Finally, statistics and real-world examples of phishing incidents will be presented. So, what is an email phishing? Well, we see two words there. The first one is email, which is the electronic mail that we use nowadays to exchange information with other people. Here we must have uniquie addresses fro the sender and reciever. Well, I am sure that you know this already. Then, the main question here is what is the meaning of „Phishing“? The Cambridge dictionary defines phishing as an attempt to trick someone into giving information over the internet or by email that would allow someone else to take money from them, for example by taking money out of their bank account. Email Phishing is a form of social engineering attack where attackers deceive people into revealing sensitive information or installing malware such as ransomware. Sensitive information examples are: Credit cards, Password of account, Personal Information such as date of birth, tax id, and nationality. Documents, this is especially harmful in the case of the business environment because of IP. Other data include personal videos and pictures. As mentioned earlier, Email Phishing attacks sometimes aim to install malware on the victim’s device. The malware could be ransomware, a spying agent, a system destructive software, or software to gain full access of the victim’s system.