Majority of email users can’t detect phishing scams

Four-fifths of business email users are unable to detect phishing scams, putting the enterprise at risk of cyber crime, security firm McAfee has warned.

According to the McAfee Labs Threats Report: August 2014, 79 per cent of those business users who were subjected to the McAfee Phishing Quiz failed to detect that at least one of the seven emails they were shown was a scam containing malicious links or malware.