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How to fight phishing

Cape Town - Passwords are not enough to ensure security with online financial transactions.

Phishing is a common attack where cyber criminals send e-mails purporting to be from financial institutions. Once the user has entered banking details, criminals usually make off with money from their account.

Just having a secure password will not protect from this kind of attack because the computer user inadvertently gives the hacker access to his or her account.

David Jacoby from Kaspersky Lab gives some tips to identify phishing e-mails and how to respond. Check out our YouTube video:

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