What tickles your pickle
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Burren
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Hoss
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My company just sent the most ridiculous test phish email ever. It was from BANK. Not, Your Bank, or naming a specific bank. Just BANK. And the subject was MONEY TRANSFER. When you held over the link, the popup box said "do.not.click/instant.retraining...." and a bunch of other gibberish. I think it should have said do.not.click/instant.termination. Anyone dumb enough to fall for that needs to have their internet taken away.
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Koushirou
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And I guarantee you a large number of people still clicked that shit. I work for a damn cybersecurity company and we still get a 3% hit on the fucking “you won an Amazon gift card” phishing campaigns. It’s depressing.
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Control
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When my company went on a big "don't click bad links" campaign a while back, they added a security package to the email which runs all the links through a system to catch malicious links. No problem there, but it inserts a bunch of link gibberish into the display. Anyone who couldn't tell that a url was sketchy before absolutely can't now. Watching the security guys try to explain to the normies how to parse the gibberish for anything suspicious is just amazing.
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Hoss
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Ours too, I was reporting everything with a link that I didn't expect. Most of them came back clean and IT tried to chastize me.'theres no reason to report emails like that" I was like, look, the fucking link looks suspicious I can't help if it's because of your system. Suspicious is suspicious.When my company went on a big "don't click bad links" campaign a while back, they added a security package to the email which runs all the links through a system to catch malicious links. No problem there, but it inserts a bunch of link gibberish into the display. Anyone who couldn't tell that a url was sketchy before absolutely can't now. Watching the security guys try to explain to the normies how to parse the gibberish for anything suspicious is just amazing.
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Tmac
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It really is a good excuse not to interact with emails! Also, I get double-bonus pickle-tickles when they get mad that no one clicks their link and then they start sending follow-up emails certifying that the previous emails were, in fact, legit. I'm not sure if anyone else sees the problem with that, but they've been doing it for years. That's fine though because I get a hearty chuckle ever time.
Hoss
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Lol yeah. All of our company wide announcements have those big red letters at the top that it originated from an outside source. But it looks like it came from hr, so this must be a scam right? Nope. Just comes from the payroll software which for some reason can't be considered internal?
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