How to Catch a Phish: A Practical Guide to Detecting Phishing Emails

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N. OlesHow to Catch a Phishhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9361-4_1

1. How Email Works

Nicholas Oles¹  

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Severn, MD, USA

 

Everyone wants to save the world one click at a time, but before traveling down the road of the interwebs and dodging dangerous international hackers, to protect yourself, you need to understand how electronic messages (also known as email) work. Email is one of the top forms of communication in the twenty-first century, and its use continues to grow rapidly. With this rapid growth has been a continuous increase in the use of email to trick users and deliver malicious software. Understanding the basic components of an email message ...