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Identifying Phishing Emails: Using Source Code to Identify Phishing

In this video, you will learn how to look at the email source code to identify phishing attempts.

In this video, you will learn how to look at the email source code to identify phishing attempts.

In the previous article, you learned how easy it is for hackers to set up phishing attacks and how these attacks use social engineering to get a response from a user. In this video, you will see two common phishing examples, and you will learn what to look at in the email source code that could indicate the email is a phishing attempt.

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