The mast was used to send thousands of smishing text messages to the public
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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?

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

I’ve worked in IT for 15 years and it’s the first time I’ve heard SMS phishing condensed to smishing. But I specialize in servers and server security, so I’m not too surprised it’s a thing.

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Open Source Security Podcast with Josh Bresher and Kurt Sigfried. It’s a pretty good source of news and discussion from a sysadmin perspective.

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Yup, those are both the industry terms

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Eintelefonmast!

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