I don't know if that is the right lesson. It's kind of like "don't click on links"... Err, no. You should be able to click any link without getting hacked.
I don't know if that is the right lesson. It's kind of like "don't click on links"... Err, no. You should be able to click any link without getting hacked.
Wr aren't talking about clicking links even. This is a bug in some stupid code that tries to read your messages for you and act on them. No thank you!
Sure, in an ideal world different from this one. You should be able to do anything on any device and never worry about security.
Unfortunately, since we don't live in that world, we need to not open links, emails, text messages, etc, if they are sketchy.
A better solution may someday exist, but as of yet has not been found.
"Don't click on links" is not a solution, and it's not something people actually do, it's just something they think they do.
Corporate Security will tell you that it's ok to click links to the payroll system or hr or vanta or the 'secure email service' or jira or github or to docusign or the microsoft office document that a partner company sent you or an amazon delivery notification, but not ok to click links in the phishing email that looks exactly like one of those that they sent you.
It's not possible to tell whether a message giving you a link to something is 'sketchy' or not before clicking the link, and any 'security' that relies on people knowing whether a message is malicious or not by magic is broken in the real world.
In my company I regularly see genuine, legitimate emails that carry several huge red flags, like these conveyed to us on trainings.
If I can plausibly claim I wasn't sure it was legit (ie it was sent from the outside form the sketchy looking host), I'd always report it internally as phishing attempt. Just to make the security work with it.
>It's not possible to tell whether a message giving you a link to something is 'sketchy' or not before clicking the link
Sure it is. It's just not something the average user can do. But what makes the situation worse is that most emails now use click tracking, so ALL links are sketchy. For example, emails from my union all link to 2mv.aplink.red and are 200 characters long and look like /dev/urandom output. No fucking idea what or who controls that domain, but it for sure is not my union. I've complained multiple times, including acting dumb and asking if they've been hacked because their email look shady as hell.
Email with the unsubscribe link wrapped in click tracking gets sent straight to SpamCop. I hate tech more and more every day.