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Ask HN: What's an easy way to keep myself safe from phishing attacks?
2 points by r_singh on Nov 19, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Asking this question because I often get afraid when read articles like 'nuclear power plant was hacked because some employee opened some email' and because I also think it would be devastating and hugely damaging to lose my information to a malicious actor.

I use OS X's mail client. Delete all junk mails without opening them (I regularly receive mails saying your account is hacked, but none of them have my password and hence I think they're illegitimate).




Familiarity


Familiarity is something phishing attacks usually use to their advantage


Familiarity with the kind of attack




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