11 Tips for Identifying Fake Websites and Phishing Emails

Description The ability to identify fake websites and detect phishing emails gives end users the power to be vigilant against cybersecurity threats. As part of CompTIA’s security awareness training video series, David Landsberger, Telecom Brokerage Inc. director of training and events, walks you through what to look for and how to respond when faced with a phishing attack.
In this video on identifying fake websites and detecting phishing emails, you’ll learn the following:
- What questions to ask about unknown URLs and email addresses
- 3 ways to identify fake email addresses and URLs
- 6 characteristics of a phishing email
- 2 exercises for training end users on how to detect phishing emails
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As we say in IT, you don’t have to be faster than the lion. You just have to be faster than the other guy running away from the lion. Threat actors are notoriously lazy. They are looking for the least trained, lowest common denominator when it comes to end users.
Your network will never be bulletproof, but the more advocates you create, the more your risk factor goes down.
Read more in CompTIA’s articles on how to identify fake websites: s.comptia.org/...
and how to detect a phishing email: s.comptia.org/...

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[@nicholass207]

Ummm Spoofing? they can replicate the domain

[@MrChezzwizz]

Most of what you suggest is easily twarted by a simple denial. Especially with an organized collective and a desperate target (hopeful IT phish short on money needing employment) there is no real way to avoid a group with more resources and experience hell bent on making your life a living hell or just excluding you from critical information. There is no magic bullet and employers are more and more relying on often never heard of, exclusive ATS (applicant tracking systems) which often are chosen by non-IT personnel and which act on behalf of the company being applied to. Being forced to use these systems and then having to provide more information on site is an extreme issue. What people really need is a network free of trolls and more aligned with empowering people to know what they are taking part in.

[@MrChezzwizz]

There are a lot of people who thrive on scamming Personally Identifiable Information. If you have never been on the sick side of i formation superiority, you really don`t have any way to understand the extreme danger and vulnerability in cyber/information warfare.

[@internetexplorer254]

ah, interesting.

[@unwujoh]

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