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After Epsilon: Avoiding Phishing Scams & Malware

Summary: Following the massive data leak from email services provider Epsilon, Krebs on Security warned that consumers would likely face an unusually high number of email-based scams in the coming weeks and months. The post laid out phishing defenses, including checking a link's root domain, reading email headers to verify the real sender, and typing a sender's URL into the browser instead of clicking.

What you should know: The Epsilon breach handed attackers a large pool of real email addresses tied to specific brands, which is exactly the raw material a convincing phishing message needs. Krebs notes that phishers count on urgency to spook people into acting before a scam site, often hosted on a hacked legitimate site, gets shuttered.

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