Testing the ability of 18,000 business users globally in detecting online scams, the McAfee Phishing Quiz found that 79 per cent of the 1,755 UK participants failed to detect at least one of seven phishing emails.
Furthermore, results showed that finance and HR departments, those holding some of the most sensitive corporate data, performed the worst at detecting scams. Only seven per cent of business users were able to identify whether a set of ten emails were phishing emails or the real thing.
Research and Development (R&D) departments proved to be the strongest at detecting phishing emails with 77 per cent accuracy, followed closely by those in IT at 73 per cent.
