SilverSky’s Holiday Security Study: Can You Spot the Spoof? | SilverSky

SilverSky’s Holiday Security Study: Can You Spot the Spoof? | SilverSky: Turns out spoofed emails are nothing new to most employees, with 73 percent having received these dangerous messages at both work and at home. A whopping 98 percent are confident they could spot a spoofed email, yet when presented with a blatantly fake email as part of our study, only 70 percent could say for sure that the FedEx email included in the survey was a fake. (Check out this infographic to see if you can spot the red flags in our sample email). Additionally, 16 percent came clean, admitting to opening a spoofed email and clicking on a bad link at some time in the past. And 71 percent know a co-worker who has gotten duped by a spoof email.