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Yeah, this isn't really that scary as long as you know how to spot phishing scams. Am disappoint.

• onion2k 11y ago
  A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. If anyone has enough privileges for a malicious attacker to use their account/info to compromise your network then that is the measure of how well protected you are. In this case it was a grandmother, but it doesn't have to be. It could be a salesperson, an HR manager, a burnt out developer. When a business grows to a sufficient size that there are people working in it who are disinterested in "computers" or "processes" (in the case of a software startup that's probably over about 10 staff), then you suddenly introduce some huge weak points in your IT infrastructure. That should be scary.
  • acbabis 11y ago
    Yeah, I guess I should be scared that companies I trust might be making these types of mistakes; I hadn't seen it from that angle. I'm just disappointed that the article was about "hackers" but just talked about scams most of us are already aware of; seems kind of click-baity. They could have entitled the article "Here's One Easy Trick to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft."