Let's go to the phishing test!
To detect fake or malware-infested e-mails, computer scientists at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have designed a phishing test. With it, every user can detect dangerous messages in their inbox.
Phishing e-mails are becoming increasingly professional and perfidious. A sender that looks trustworthy at first glance turns out to be fake at second glance. A link in the e-mail, where only the mouse pointer reveals that it does not lead to the specified URL, but to a fake website. Many users become suspicious of such e-mails. Too many, however, click on them and end up on fake websites or download malware onto their computers with contaminated attachments. This makes it easy for criminals to obtain confidential data or passwords.
Do you recognize fake emails?
To further sensitize users, Oliver Hirschi has developed a phishing test together with a security awareness team at the Department of Computer Science at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. On the website of "eBanking - but secure!" under the link www.ebas.ch/phishingtest everyone learns how well they can distinguish phishing emails from legitimate ones.
Based on seven images of e-mails and websites, everyone has to decide whether and why it is phishing. The task is to recognize false links, fake addresses or strange language and to check secure e-mail signatures. To improve the learning effect, the relevant and correct features are shown directly after each example.
Source: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Marketing & Communication
