How to fight phishing ?

Phishing is a daily plague for internet users. This Anglicism means "phishing" and is characterized by the use of the image of a real company and its name. The phishing emails contain visuals that look like the company's official website and play on an emergency effect in order to extract personal information from us such as a password or worse, a number. bank card. Fortunately, there are tips and solutions to tackle phishing effectively and sustainably. We will develop several of them in this article.

The majority of phishing attacks use the image of banks but not only, they can also target your personal information by pretending to be Ebay, Facebook or even Twitter.

A common indicator of phishing attempts is spelling. When you sift through hundreds of emails like this, you quickly notice one thing in common: the spelling is terrible.

What to do on a daily basis ?

The best way to prevent phishing is to systematically ignore all emails that ask you for confidential information. If you have any doubts, contact the company in question directly to find out.

It is common for these emails to contain an attachment. Above all, do not open it! Especially if it is a PDF, an Excel file or even a Word.

Check the security of the sites. From the moment you are asked for confidential information and more particularly banking information, you must absolutely verify that the site address is secure. This is identified by the beginning of the site address which must begin with "https" and be preceded by a closed green padlock. You can click this padlock to get more information and find out if the connection is risky or not.

Phishing is a form of Internet scam. Solutions exist to guard against this. © magann, Adobe Stoc

Use an anti-phishing solution

There are software solutions like Altospam that get to the root of the problem by scanning your emails before you even receive them. Thanks to state-of-the-art techniques (DNS registration, automatic whitelist or even Bayesian method) fraudulent emails are detected upstream. This exclusive technique brings several beneficial effects: it alleviates the use of bandwidth, it de-clutters mailboxes and above all it eliminates the vast majority of spam.

These solutions are generally easily and transparently integrated. No installation is required, you just need to simply configure the DNS entries to allow the solution to scan and sort your emails.

Take care of your email address

Spammers build mailing lists using basic combinations of names, words and numbers. It is therefore useful to have a private email address that is difficult to guess. Your private address shouldn't be just your first and last name.

Never publish your private address in a resource that can be accessed directly online.

If you are forced to show it on a web page, try to hide it to be able to prevent spammers from picking it up automatically. For example, if your email is jean.dupont@gmail.com, write jean-point-dupont-arobaz-gmail-point-com instead.

If your private email address is still found by spammers, don't hesitate to change it. Even if it is quite restrictive, you must do it to avoid falling victim to a phishing attempt by email.