Fake news has an underreported role to play in phishing scams. The explosion of WordPress-powered blogging sites in the early-to-mid ’00s created an internet that was, as he put it, “riddled with content with varying levels of legitimacy” IT security has something of an advantage over those grappling with the issue in the media at large, says Douglas Boemker, CEO of Macrotec Security. Security or IT are the only teams in the company who have the expertise and the mindset to deal with real time attacks.”]

