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A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either) (maurycyz.com)
submitted 4 hours ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

IT department: ”A clear telltale sign of phishing is the sense of urgency. Official IT department email will never panic you into clicking strange links”

Also IT department: ”YOUR PASSWORD IS EXPIRING IN 24 HOURS!!! CLICK THIS STRANGE LINK NOW TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD!!!”

[–] wiccan2@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 hours ago

24 hours, my IT department sends them out at 28 days!

It's so stupid, and they still write the email as if it's happening immediately.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 15 points 4 hours ago

My most relevant experience: A colleague sent me a paypal link that allows me to accept money. Nowadays, I know that it was legit. But instead of paypal.com, it was something like py.pl?code=abcdef or p.pl?code=abcdef or whatever...

Thanks, Paypal!!. Clicking the shortened hyperlink did not save me any time, but it wasted multiple minutes for me to research whether the domain was a scam or not.

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

Meanwhile my IT department set up protocols that are flagging emails I sent to myself as scams. Mostly photos that failed to upload to the sharepoint from my work phone that is already authenticated and verified. Nice work, guys.