How to protect yourself from 'spear phishing' hacking technique

Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 03:25 in Mathematics & Economics

As sophisticated as the scheme was by Russian intelligence agents to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, they used a simple hacking technique, among others, to infiltrate the email accounts of Democratic operatives, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's latest indictment. And that technique—known as "spear phishing—remains a threat not just to campaign officials but to employees and consumers.

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