Attacks begin when users are lured into “visiting suspicious websites or click on phishing links that download malicious software onto their computer.”
Incidentally, we try not to use these sorts of “Forbes contributor” articles on Wikipedia when possible. They’re effectively just blogs masquerading under the credibility of Forbes staff’s actual journalism.
That said, I don’t see anything wrong with this excerpt. This is legitimate attack vector.
Yeah, I dunno what the facepalm is supposed to be about. 99% of the rest of the world has about 1% of the tech knowledge that the average Lemmy user is going to have. These scams are wildly effective, and it’s not really a matter of general intelligence as far as who falls victim to them.
You don’t need to have advanced technological know-how to know about phishing scams. Practically every company has a boring training course you have to go through at least once a year.
I work in cyber security and they still feel the need to tell us about phishing scams, like we don’t know about 100 other scarier things.
For me, the article makes it seem like there’s some new announcement that the FBI has put out about a newly discovered vulnerability. Turns out, the announcement is about vulnerabilities we’ve known about for a long time.
Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.
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I was lured into reading a suspicious Forbes article.
Incidentally, we try not to use these sorts of “Forbes contributor” articles on Wikipedia when possible. They’re effectively just blogs masquerading under the credibility of Forbes staff’s actual journalism.
That said, I don’t see anything wrong with this excerpt. This is legitimate attack vector.
It’s always being an attack vector. Phishing scams have been the oldest form of fraud from the beginning.
It’s basically the same principle that con artists have been using for decades long before the invention of the internet
As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.
It’s always the same people in my experience. No matter how many times they go through the training it never seems to stick.
Yeah, I dunno what the facepalm is supposed to be about. 99% of the rest of the world has about 1% of the tech knowledge that the average Lemmy user is going to have. These scams are wildly effective, and it’s not really a matter of general intelligence as far as who falls victim to them.
You don’t need to have advanced technological know-how to know about phishing scams. Practically every company has a boring training course you have to go through at least once a year.
I work in cyber security and they still feel the need to tell us about phishing scams, like we don’t know about 100 other scarier things.
For me, the article makes it seem like there’s some new announcement that the FBI has put out about a newly discovered vulnerability. Turns out, the announcement is about vulnerabilities we’ve known about for a long time.
Years ago I might have agreed, but with digital technology having become so central to one’s daily life I find it hard to excuse those who fail to educate themselves about the very basics.
An old time classic.