{"id":28,"date":"2016-09-02T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T10:18:21","slug":"what-is-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/the-internet\/what-is-phishing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\">Phishing is a form of \u201csocial engineering\u201d. It\u2019s when you see an email that maybe you expect to see, but it\u2019s not from who you think it is. Phishing emails typically have one purpose: make you open a link or an attachment. Either way, the ultimate aim is to use the link or attachment to infect your PC with malware, usually \u201czero-day\u201d malware which will often bypass anti-virus software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">To that end, it\u2019s extremely important that you\u2019re suspicious of any email that asks you to open a link or attachment. That doesn\u2019t have to mean a blanket ban \u2013 but take extra care to check that the sender is correct and the context of the email is relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phishing is a form of \u201csocial engineering\u201d. It\u2019s when you see an email that maybe you expect to see, but it\u2019s not from who you think it is. Phishing emails typically have one purpose: make you open a link or an attachment. Either way, the ultimate aim is to use the link or attachment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scaine.net\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}