Phishing has become a growing problem for e-mail users both at home and at work.
Administrators feel the loss of company security via a successful phishing scam; home
users fear for their poor mothers who are not technically savvy and may fall into a
trap that will lead to identity theft.
In short, “phishing” is when an e-mail is sent with the intent of extracting
personal information from the recipient. Typically, the information being sought is
both personal and financial. As such, the authors of these phishing efforts typically
disguise the e-mail as a very pr
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