MIS 2101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Big Data, Software As A Service, Amazon Web Services

• School: Temple University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 2101
• Professor: Amy Lavin

Document Summary

Phishing attempt to acquire sensitive info such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details, for harmful reasons by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Linkedin phishing email how to distinguish between a phish and a. Phishers target customers of banks, online payment services and social network sites like paypal, twitter, fedex, etc. Scammers sending emails saying your apple id, icloud or itunes account has been compromised and ask you to provide personal info. Legitimate companies like apple never ask you to provide personal info via email. Danger for people using icloud is that people back their cell phone to it and hackers can gain all sorts of private info from it. To avoid scam make sure you are in the itunes application directly and through a web browser. Only update account info in itunes or online apple store. Contact apple if you feel your account is compromised.