The DNC also reported the matter to law enforcement, said the official, who stressed that the committee utilizes thorough training and security protocols to defend against fraud and other nefarious activity.
Those protocols obviously need a bit of a review. Though, my bet is on Martin being one of those leaders who regularly doesn’t follow protocol and throws a tantrum when other people try to insist he does. This sort of failure happens because the staffers are more afraid of pissing off the tantrum thrower than breaking protocol.
I used to have a boss who wrote just like those scam emails, absolutely could not spell, all sorts of syntax errors. He once emailed ‘thanks for the help Brandon’ to one of the IT staff named Brenda.
Whenever hr would send those fake scam emails to test employees, it would be impossible to tell if it was from him or not. Total pain in the ass to deal with. He was also a terrible boss and constantly violated protocol and threw tantrums, so I could totally see that.
The worst is that they set up outlook to obfuscate all urls, so you can’t even validate by eye.
I work in cybersecurity and this sort of thing drives me straight up a wall. I understand why these sort of things exist, but they fail so often that they are worthless. My work has the Microsoft “urldefense” bullshit URL mangling. As far as I can tell, it has never stopped someone from clicking on a phishing email. In fact, since the URL now looks like a Microsoft URL, users think they are safe to click on. All the money and effort for training, right in the shit can. Thanks Microslop!
Those protocols obviously need a bit of a review. Though, my bet is on Martin being one of those leaders who regularly doesn’t follow protocol and throws a tantrum when other people try to insist he does. This sort of failure happens because the staffers are more afraid of pissing off the tantrum thrower than breaking protocol.
I used to have a boss who wrote just like those scam emails, absolutely could not spell, all sorts of syntax errors. He once emailed ‘thanks for the help Brandon’ to one of the IT staff named Brenda.
Whenever hr would send those fake scam emails to test employees, it would be impossible to tell if it was from him or not. Total pain in the ass to deal with. He was also a terrible boss and constantly violated protocol and threw tantrums, so I could totally see that.
We now have an email to forward scams to, and I’ll gladly forward Anything that looks sketchy or AI generated. The best was sending an IT email to it.
The worst is that they set up outlook to obfuscate all urls, so you can’t even validate by eye.
I work in cybersecurity and this sort of thing drives me straight up a wall. I understand why these sort of things exist, but they fail so often that they are worthless. My work has the Microsoft “urldefense” bullshit URL mangling. As far as I can tell, it has never stopped someone from clicking on a phishing email. In fact, since the URL now looks like a Microsoft URL, users think they are safe to click on. All the money and effort for training, right in the shit can. Thanks Microslop!