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

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[โ€“] cron@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is a 2025 study that was widely reported:

In summary, our results confirm the ineffectiveness of current phishing training approaches while offering a refined study design for future work.

arXiv:2506.19899

training interventions showed no significant main effects on click rates (p=0.450) or reporting rates (p=0.417), with negligible effect sizes

Thank you. I stand corrected, and with my Bayesian priors updated.