Prankster Turned Gamekeeper: Phishing and Whaling with James Linton
In 2017, James Linton was working as a digital UX (User Experience) designer, with no idea what a few pranks over the next few months would lead to. Now, he works on helping people to understand all forms of phishing and whaling.Nowadays phishing is a well-known term, and has split into a myriad of others such as whaling, spear phishing, vishing, SMishing, dishing, and ever more niche terms. While phishing started off referring to just e-mail, now it covers any form of attack relying on impersonation fraud which uses…