Ch.9 IT Sim: Security and Privacy

Which of the following characteristics of an email header should cause suspicion?

A sense of urgency in the Subject line

You receive an email message from PayPal with a link and instructions requesting you to update your password. What is the best thing to do with this message?

Delete the email message.

An email message arrives from someone in your organization whom you know. The message contains no subject line and the body of the email message contains only a web link to an unfamiliar site. What is the best thing to do with this message?

Delete the message without opening it.

You receive an email message from a colleague with an attachment you were not expecting. In the body of the message, he addresses you by name and suggests that the attachment contains specs for your next project, which you should review with your boss, whom he also addresses by name. What is the best thing to do with this email message?

Open it and review the attachment.