Be aware of #phishing

20 Jul 2023 · 0 min

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This content was created by Robert Siciliano. This content was uploaded by Robert Siciliano. This is a YouTube video titled "Be aware of #phishing" (uploaded July 20, 2023). The excerpt is a short security-awareness segment in which a single speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) warns about social media phishing and account takeover—explaining how attackers log into profiles, impersonate victims to swindle friends and family (e.g., claiming they were mugged) and urging the use of two-factor authentication to protect accounts. Thumbnail and upload metadata indicate a public awareness context on phishing.

Social media phishing, when they will take over your social media accounts via username and password, and they log into your social media profiles, and they pose as you to friends and family, and ultimately get your friends and family to wire them money because they went on a trip, and they got mugged, and they lost their wallet and passport and whatever. So you want to have two-factor authentication on your social media accounts.