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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year 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?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 98 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not just UK. It’s a stupid term that organizations use in cybersecurity trainings but no one else uses.

[–] FalseMyrmidon@kbin.run 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I had to do a security cert last year and it had a bunch of made up sounding crap like that.

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