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Sometimes I wonder whether all this "security awareness training" has any effect at all.

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yep.

Most of them are phishing test emails (where the org sends out fake "phishing" emails which have a UUID link tied to your email address) so they KNOW who clicks on these and who reports them. Until I stopped giving a fuck, I had reported 100% of them and clicked on 0. But since that doesn't let you "test out" of the 45 minute quarterly security awareness training, I stopped wasting my time and just delete them

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

About 9 years ago I wrote a script that looked for links to domains registered to wombat (the company that most companies seem to use for phishing simulation) and would autoreport and delete them. So just never saw them.

Still had to do the training. Every six months.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

One of my former managers had this habit of setting up email rules for known phishing simulation domains whenever he started somewhere new.

Microsoft domains listed in a table here for anyone else unfortunate enough to have to use their products within your org.