From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 2: Files and Applications, Networking, and Security

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Click-worthy

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Click-worthy

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- Online security for users starts with education. You need to know key indicators of safe websites and email messages. And definitely spot key factors of dangerous websites and email. So to determine safe from unsafe, let's play Click Worthy! In Click Worthy, we look at email messages and websites and you, the audience decide whether or not those links are click worthy. Let's play. And let's start with email. Our first entry is from True Dog Breath Spray asking us to buy this amazing product. Audience, click worthy? (audience cheering) No, unsolicited email messages, bam, are pretty easy to spot. Unknown source, asking for money, bad news. Let's try another. Oh, here's a message from Mom that has a subject line, "This is great" and only a link to a picture in the body. Audience, click worthy? - [Audience] No! - Right. It's relatively easy to fake or spoof an email address. You can contact the sender if you think…

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