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How to tell if a link is legitimate

How to tell if a link is legitimate

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How to tell if a link is legitimate

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- [Instructor] One of the tricky things to learn when you're exploring digital security is how to tell if a link is quote unquote, real. You might need to investigate links that show up on the web, in a chat message, or in email. Experienced security people can usually tell very quickly if a link is legitimate or pretending to be something else. But the ability to do this is somewhat hard to describe, so in this episode, I want to take a few minutes to help you understand what security professionals look for when they decide what to click. In a previous episode, we explored the different parts of a URL. So now that we have a general sense of what a link or URL is made of, let's take a look at the ways we can use that knowledge to figure out if a URL is legitimate, or whether it's trying to trick us. The first step in this process is to find a link to examine. In many programs, if you hover the mouse over a hyperlink, you'll see the URL that link will take you to if you click it. That…

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