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24 October 2018

NIST Issues Findings On Why Employees Click On Phishing Emails

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On June 27, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a video exploring why people click on phishing emails.
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On June 27, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") released a video exploring why people click on phishing emails. According to NIST's study, context plays a critical factor in why users click or do not click on a phishing email, and the more relevant the context of the message seems to a person's life or job responsibilities, the harder it is for that person to recognize it as a phishing attack.

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