Phishing & Identity Threat Protection

[Eddie_Paul_Litz]

Can Phishing lead to Identity Threats?

If a PC user has a Web Filter that Filters out Phishing Sites will that also protect against ID Threat Sites too?

[veeg]

Hello Eddie

Check out this link.
Gone Phishing: How Phishing Leads to Hacked Accounts and Identity Theft | Trend Micro (US)

[Eddie_Paul_Litz]

Hello Eddie

Check out this link.
Gone Phishing: How Phishing Leads to Hacked Accounts and Identity Theft | Trend Micro (US)

Using Web Filters that filters out Phishing site would be a way to avoid Identity Theft then?o_O

[veeg]

Yep

[Eddie_Paul_Litz]

Okay. You guys already know I use K9 Web Protection which has a Phishing Filter. http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ I also use WOT (Web Of Trust) too. https://www.mywot.com/

[veeg]

So do you suspect your pc has malware?

[Eddie_Paul_Litz]

So do you suspect your pc has malware?

Haven’t ran into any yet, I’m just preventing all of it.

[Rustys]

If you are thinking about WOT. Granted the article is old just something to think on.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/[/URL]

[Eddie_Paul_Litz]

If you are thinking about WOT.

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/

Last I knew WOT has got that problem stopped & resolved.

[Rustys]

Last I knew WOT has got that problem stopped & resolved.

Quoted from WOT Services

In a blog post published on December 19, 2016, WOT Services stated that they had upgraded their browser extension, and released it in the Google Chrome extension gallery. The upgraded version included “several major code updates in order to protect our users privacy and an opt-out option from the user Settings, for users who do not wish to share data with us but still want to have easy access to WOT.”[21] In February 2017, Mozilla reinstated the WOT browsing tool in the Firefox add-on store.[22]

So it looks as if they did by giving you the option to opt out.

[jmarket]

WOT is a great browser addon and always has been. Should you choose not to activate “Real Time protection” which is unnecessary for the app to advise you, NO data will be collected. The privacy policy HERE clearly details this in the “Opt Out Rights” section.

Here’s how to disable data collection, which according to their privacy policy is probably less invasive than many other so called trusted sites and apps.

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