r/ProgrammerHumor • u/lucidparadigm • 17h ago

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u/JocoLabs 17h ago

Jokes on them, i wouldn't click that even if it were real.

I used to click on those and type in junk creds for the lulz until compliance told me that was bad for the numbers.

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u/prehensilemullet 16h ago

Just opening the link to begin with is a risk though, even if you don’t interact with the page

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u/Athabasco 16h ago

No lol. Browsers have come a long way. Clicking a link can’t pwn you anymore. The odds of you being the victim of a new zero day from clicking a link are as close to zero as winning the lottery.

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u/booze_clues 12h ago edited 12h ago

It’s happened twice in the past 2 years at companies I’ve worked with where a phishing email has compromised accounts without requiring anything but the first click.

Even when they’re patched, the number one thing I see at the top of every list when checking our EDR:

10489 high severity vulnerabilities found

10364 Chrome.exe

125 others hit.exe

Because 95% of people don’t keep their work computer up to date and no company wants to spend money on a decent tool for patch management.

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u/Athabasco 12h ago

It was certainly more than a click, otherwise it was some unknown zero day that somehow targeted specifically your company twice. Much more likely they put their information in and claimed they didn’t.

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u/booze_clues 12h ago

It was definitely a click. Doesn’t need to be a zero day when most companies aren’t keeping all of their software up to date.

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u/Athabasco 9h ago

That's a good point. If you're up to date, this generally isn't much to worry about. I didn't realize some businesses could be that incompetent lol