How Experts Detect Phishing Emails (With Implications for Disinformation and Fake News)
Thursday, October 24, 12-1PM, Room 408 CAS
Phishing — scam emails pretending to be something they are not — are increasingly getting people to reveal information, transfer money, or undertake actions that they normally wouldn’t do. I will describe my research into the cognitive processes that IT experts use to successfully detect that an email in their inbox is phishing. I will also discuss ways that this process might fail, and connections between phishing and other modern problems like disinformation and fake news.
Presenter: Rick Wash, Associate Professor