• @Brkdncr
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    109 hours ago

    As someone who actively defends and trains against these attacks, I still see people downloading and executing suspicious files regularly.

    • Echo Dot
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      22 hours ago

      It’s always the same people in my experience. No matter how many times they go through the training it never seems to stick.

    • Chozo
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      29 hours ago

      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.

      • Echo Dot
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        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.

      • @QuadratureSurfer
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        54 hours ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 hours ago

        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.