A well-known inconvenience in the IT world is how the term “phishing” is pronounced the same way as “fishing”. This sometimes creates confusion—just like a real phishing attack! The Safe Surfer team has detailed several suggestions below that can help protect you from cybercriminals. Hover first, click later Attackers sometimes abuse hyperlinks (that is, highlighted web links on websites and emails) to make it appear that you’re going to a friendly site, when you’re really being led to a spoof site—a fake.

If you’ve been on the internet long enough (or just watched a TV show about hacking) you’ve probably heard of an IP address. What is an IP Address? If all you knew about IP addresses came from TV shows or the ads for VPNs that are suddenly everywhere, you’d think that you need to hide yours at any cost. Won’t I get hacked? An IP address is just a number that uniquely identifies where your computer is on the internet.

Safe Surfer invests in modern technologies to make surfing the web a safer experience for you. We have been keeping our eye on a new set of technologies that is being freshly released to devices by major technology companies and organisations via device updates: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT). Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla have been releasing support for DoH and DoT into their products since 2019 and 2020.