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Two men arrested for creating illegal telephone mast in the UK (www.datacenterdynamics.com)

submitted 5 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 85 points 5 months ago (25 children)

Smishing is a phishing cybersecurity attack carried out over mobile text messaging. It's also known as SMS phishing.

I had never heard that term before. Is it just a UKism, or am I one of today's lucky 10,000?

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So is original phishing supposed to be over the phone? Like it's the email game called emishing or something?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Nah phishing is a 90s term though probably coined in reference to phreaking. That started up in the 60s and by the 80s even the US had mostly switched to out of band signalling for their telephone system so none of the stuff worked any more.

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