How to protect yourself against phishing?
• Use your login info in the correct places only. Don’t ever put your login info anywhere else than the page you registered to, unless it’s a trusted service, such as youtube or blogger, asking for your google account’s info). • Make sure the website you’re logging in isn’t fake. Whenever you login to a website, if you didn’t type the URL (address) of the website yourself, i.e. if you clicked a link that led you to the login page (from message, website, search engine results), always check the url (address) to see if you’re in the right place. For instance, if you’re logging in your facebook account, make sure the url appears as http://www.facebook.com/ Where a phisher page would look like http://www.facebook.freewebs.com/, or http://www.facebook.spam.com/, or any url whose part before the .com isn’t exactly the same as the page you want to login to. • Make sure the links you’re clicking aren’t fake. Whenever you’re clicking a link, check where the link goes before clicking it. Links c
