Think you can spot a phishing email? Think again

People may not be as good as they think they are at spotting phishing scams, according to researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr Casey Canfield, Missouri S&T assistant professor of engineering management and systems engineering, worked with Carnegie Mellon University colleagues Baruch Fischhoff and Ales Davis on the study, which measures how well people’s confidence in their ability to detect phishing matches with reality. Study participants were shown a series of legitimate and phishing emails and then asked questions to determine if they could identify the two types. Researchers then asked how confident they were about… [Continue Reading]