Passwords have become one of the most important factors in today’s digital world. Every person is needed to have one if they want to have a digital footprint, receive and send emails, use social media platforms, to name few of the many regular uses. To celebrate this May 2 has been declared as the World Password Day.
Many people still use very simple passwords like ‘123456789’ or even ‘their names’, as one recent report showed. If you are among them please change your password soon as a cyber-criminal can easily have access on your digital life. And if you are not one of those and are proud to have a password that will make every password box green and seem small, we congratulate you. However, you still might have danger from an odd phishing attack.

What is a phishing attack?

A phishing attack is carried out by a person to illegally get sensitive information like username, passwords and credit card details of another person. This is done by imitating a reliable entity in an electronic communication.
Like for example, you might get an email that claims to be from Apple saying your password is urgently required or your account will be locked. You click on the same link and then type your password, other details, which are then taken by the hacker, because the email was never actually sent by Apple.
Phishing is one of the most common frauds on the internet as the other person thinks the email to be true and then gives away all their information to the impersonator.