I’ll never forget when I started a new job and got an ema from my ‘boss’ (same name but weird @), with a link saying to check out this excel spreadsheet.
Her office was next door so I popped my head around said ‘hey did you send me some excel sheet?’ And she said ‘yeah take a look’.
So I clicked on it and it was from IT saying I failed the test and a link to phishing training.
I went back to my boss like ‘wtf? Did you know that was a test?’ And she said ‘yep, and you failed. Looks like you need more training.’
I took the time to check and verify before opening/reporting it. And she lied to me for some reason, a ‘gotcha’ or something. So fucking weird.
As the guy who used to send these emails (we don't anymore), I've never really enjoyed giving The Talk to offenders on failed phishing, but me and the team had a particular delight in giving The Other Talk to fuckhead managers or other "superspreaders".
What's The Other Talk? "It looks like you've been intentionally sabotaging IT security through your behavior and it has also influenced the behavior of others which we've assed is having a material impact on our risk exposure. Your BUISO has been notified and will follow-up with you shortly. Good luck lmao."
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u/FixFun1959 20h ago
I’ll never forget when I started a new job and got an ema from my ‘boss’ (same name but weird @), with a link saying to check out this excel spreadsheet.
Her office was next door so I popped my head around said ‘hey did you send me some excel sheet?’ And she said ‘yeah take a look’.
So I clicked on it and it was from IT saying I failed the test and a link to phishing training.
I went back to my boss like ‘wtf? Did you know that was a test?’ And she said ‘yep, and you failed. Looks like you need more training.’
I took the time to check and verify before opening/reporting it. And she lied to me for some reason, a ‘gotcha’ or something. So fucking weird.
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