Phishing scams work so well largely because it isn't easy for most people to detect that an email they receive isn't what it says it is
Phishing is a maddeningly effective threat to corporate cybersecurity. Employees are routinely warned of the danger, and yet the tactic works again and again. One-third of corporate cybersecurity breaches in 2018 were due to phishing.
The good news: The experts rely more on intuition and experience to detect phishing than they do on technical or cybersecurity expertise. Anyone can learn from their approach. As they did this comparison, the experts would sometimes notice differences that felt odd. In the retailer email, the expert noticed a typo, which she had never seen in an email from that company before. Another expert received an email supposedly from his bank saying his account was hacked and he needed to log in to verify his account.
Experts tend to do this differently than nonexperts. This is where their technical expertise comes into play. For instance, they can trace the route of an email back to its origin by examining the header—a string of code normally hidden from email recipients—to determine whether the email actually came from the purported sender.
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