As part of the Air Force’s mission to ward off attacks in cyberspace, the 50th Space Communications Squadron went phishing on base last month.
“Phishing is when someone sends messages to a large group of people in an effort to deceive people into revealing their personal information, such as a social security numbers, credit card numbers or bank information,” said 2nd Lt. James Vanderwende, 50th Space Wing Information Assurance officer in charge.
In most situations, phishing attempts are made online via email but phishing attacks using the telephone have also been successful, he added.
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