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You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher explains how to trust your instincts to foil the attacks

  • Written by Rick Wash, Associate Professor of Information Science and Cybersecurity, Michigan State University
You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher explains how to trust your instincts to foil the attacksIf your gut says something is off about an email message, stop and investigate.Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images

An employee at MacEwan University got an email in 2017 from someone claiming to be a construction contractor asking to change the account number where almost $12 million in payments were sent. A week later the actual...

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