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Email Spam Filters as a solution to simplistic phishing emails


Email Spam Filters: Email spam filters are programs that try to stop illegitimate emails from reaching users by filtering them. All filtering techniques have a trade-off, between rejecting legitimate emails and letting through illegitimate emails. There are many types of filtering techniques available to email administrators.

This is a video from a telephone company, so ignore the little bit at the end!

Task 1

Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques#Automated_techniques_for_email_administrators and pick a technique under “2. Automated techniques for email administrators”. Think of something the technique does well, think of a potential issue you could see with it.

Task 2

Find a partner, tell them how you think you could use this technique to stop the hacker!


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