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Drifting in Digital Tides
According to the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity (LHC)(1), the primary danger concealed by the digital waves is phishing. Cunning pirates on the cyber seas weave intricate nets, baiting unsuspecting victims into their trap, to obtain sensitive information or compromising accounts, systems, and/or other personal or organizational Information Technology resources. This serves as the initial foothold that cyber attackers exploit to initiate a cascade of various other assaults.
The term “phishing” was first recorded in the annals of hacker lore(2) in the nineties but may have been used earlier in the hacker magazine 2600(3). The first phishing email may have surfaced around the year 1995(4). Then came the storm...
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