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The reason might be that the training programs are just ridiculously bad. I clicked on a pretend phishing link out of interest to see what happens. I was treate
by cycomanic 1y ago
The reason might be that the training programs are just ridiculously bad. I clicked on a pretend phishing link out of interest to see what happens. I was treated to a lecture of how clicking on links in emails is always bad and to never do it.
That advise would be fine (albeit maybe extreme) if it wasn't the case that for the last year I have been spammed by emails from said training company telling me to click on the included link to complete the next cybersecurity course. Even worse they use some nondescriptive weirdly named domain not their own to host the training courses. So if anything the courses are training people to click on phishing emails.
- themafia 1y agoI recently got reported for clicking a phishing link three times. Looking at the audit log all three of these clicks supposedly happened within seconds of each other. My suspicion is the training company realized no one was falling for the obvious bait anymore and they needed to gin up the numbers to keep the company convinced that paying for their services was worthwhile. Meanwhile all corporate teams use the same VLAN and DHCP Address Pool. There is zero separation of departments on the network. A lot of companies get this precise situation backwards as we have.
- lesuorac 1y agoI wonder if it's your email client or something. IIUC, some of them will pre-load a page by opening it for you.
- lozenge 1y agoYour company should get a better company, mine either asks to download and run a file or presents a login form. I'm not sure what they do after that because I've never failed that badly...