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Rick Wash

Rick Wash is an associate professor of information science and cybersecurity at Michigan State University.
Cybersecurity

You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher explains how to trust your instincts to foil the attacks

Familiarity with specific phishing incidents helps people remember phishing generally and recognize that it might explain the weird things they notice in an email. These stories are key to people going from “something’s fishy” to “is this phishing?”