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0 pointssolid_fuel5mo ago0 comments

At a previous position, I had a rather strained relationship with the IT department - they were very slow to fill requests and maintained an extremely locked down windows server that we were supposed to develop for. It wasn't the worse environment, but the constant red tape was pretty frustrating.

I got got when they sent out a phishing test email disguised as a survey of user satisfaction with the IT department. Honestly I couldn't even be mad about it - it looked like all those other sketchy corporate surveys complete with a link to a domain similar to Qualtrics (I think it was one or two letters off).

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taneq5mo ago

TBH this is probably the best argument for actually conducting phishing pentests. It shuts up the technical users who think they're too smart to need the handrails and safety nets that the IT department set up for the rest of the average plebs who work there.

(Speaking as one of the technical users here. Of course, it wouldn't happen to ME! :P )

eru5mo ago

If you never read your emails, it's hard for them to get you with phishing emails.

kuschku5mo ago

if you've got email filters set up that sort emails by (dkim-verified) sender into folders, phishing becomes immediate obvious as you start to wonder why it isn't sorted into the right folder.

zahlman5mo ago

I'd heard that the spammers are better at using DKIM correctly than legitimate users nowadays... ?

Aeolun5mo ago

I dunno, if I get phishing emails in my inbox I feel like a certain team has already failed. We have a firewall that blocks anything non- approved. Do the same thing with emails.

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