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1 Truffle Security:  "If I throw away my phone book, other people still have a record of my phone number!  Somehow, throwing away my own phone book doesn't destroy every phone book ever printed!"

Posted by: normal at Thursday, July 25 2024 07:48 PM (bg2DR)

2 In a previous life where I was responsible for corporate email, they brought KnowBe4 in for a trial, and were amazed that none of the test users fell for the phishing... because my anti-spam appliances had blocked all the attempts.

I had to add a custom rule to allow phishing tests in to prevent phishing.

-j

Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, July 25 2024 09:33 PM (oJgNG)

3 Odds on any of us getting a refund for the last 70 years of this "Universal Service Fee"?

Posted by: normal at Thursday, July 25 2024 11:53 PM (LADmw)

4 I gotta admit I don't pay much attention to awards in general, but ever since Larry Correia and the Sad Puppies brought attention to the Hugos I stopped even caring about them.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, July 26 2024 12:06 AM (MItL9)

5 My new company uses KnowBe4.  I've seen about two messages from them.  The first one, I got an email right after it that was obviously spam, if you knew to be a tiny bit suspicious (misspelled "microsft.com" or similar in the from address).  I was like "no way this isn't a test", hit the "report" button in Outlook (which the KnowBe4 email went to great lengths to explain how to use), and instantly got a "congratulations, this was a test!" popup.
I feel like that's not the best way to go about it, but whatever.

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, July 26 2024 12:18 AM (MItL9)

6 knowbe4 style of phishing awareness training is a bit useful if your organization hires people from another culture, perhaps particularly third world, or a lot of overconfident idiots. 

So, universities, for one.  But maybe also places that hire HR, etc., from universities. 

If a university does not have a really great IT organization, providing a good quality spam filtering service, whenever their faculty is traveling, a lot of the international grad students get 'I had trouble traveling, send money' scams. 

There's a joke about how the answer is that if we can shut down so much of the economy for a winter cold, then there is no real benefit to having academics traveling anyway.  We need more segregation between faculty at different universities. 

Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, July 26 2024 01:40 AM (rcPLc)

7 My company uses KnowB4, and the test phish emails are hit and miss. Sometimes they're very obvious, sometimes they're quite subtle. One of them was a clever enough fake that about 1/3rd of the company followed the link, though fortunately almost everyone who did stopped when they got presented with a login screen. There was one yesterday that looked like a Crowdstrike follow-up from Microsoft, it was obvious to me, but I'll be curious to see what percentage of our company recognized it.
The trainings, similarly, are hit and miss. Sometimes they've been very good, other times incredibly basic.
But you have to recognize that a lot of their customer companies aren't expecting a provider like KnowB4 to actually save the company from having something bad happen, but are just covering their executive's behinds with a "hey, we did all the trainings, we used the high rated consultants, etc, we did the best we could, don't sue." defense.

Posted by: David Eastman at Friday, July 26 2024 02:37 AM (rmrII)

8 AI training problems - maybe they can give this a fancy name...like GIGO smile

Posted by: Frank at Friday, July 26 2024 05:36 AM (qPjyz)

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