#phishing links

[ben-the-hyena]

WARNING TO ANYONE USING FURAFFINITY, PASS IT ON!!!!

[openphrase123]

world's laziest phishing scam. i'm losing my mind over this it's hilarious

[supercantaloupe]

gonna be real with you, i do not post gofundmes dropped by strangers in my inbox. ever. i realize saying this will change nothing because most of the time those are sent by bots or scammers, but regardless. if i do not know you i am not spreading your personal donation link dropped into my messages, regardless of the stated purpose of the link

[beckyblah]

what if we all started watermarking our art with sketchy qr codes

[arlathen]

i just had a collection of words enter my head so. flashing back a few fixations.

agency IT department phishing test email.

[faustandfurious]

The venn diagram of people who fall for social media scams and people who sell multilevel marketing products isn’t a perfect circle, but it’s pretty damn round

[the-birth-of-art]

CK5, everybody

[1am-s0-veryt1red]

if I see I another porn bot link come up in one of the tags I follow I'm gonna lose it

[wutheringmights]

Saw this randomly and first thought was ctb warriors <3

https://www.tumblr.com/ousia-poetica/722865047779655680?source=share

I will reblog this but, yes definitely! His heart isn't the prettiest lol

[anarkhebringer]

There's a new phishing link hack tell going around now apparently, careful out there y'all

[otherpeoplescreativity]

Because I had to look this up again today:

If you are in the USA, you can forward phishing scam text messages to these folks in our government. They will then do their thing. I always hope that my forward contains the final piece of the puzzle that a Reginald Shoe type needs in order to go shut down the actual sender and whatever "get rich quick via our handy Fraud-O-Matic kit" seller provided the script kiddie supplies.

[s-ponk]

I got hoes sending me <emojis>

[aintmyjewelry]

watching ur parents have like no concept of internet safety is insane

[fooltofancy]

one of my coworkers sends a department-wide email every time she catches a phishing test, and that is so, so kind of her because my first instinct is LET THEM DIE.

[the-birth-of-art]

Happy 59th to John Sullen Melancholy

(photo from 8/5/23 soundcheck)

[crystal-lillies]

I understand the importance of cybersecurity training. I really do.

But when the height of a 15-minute training (that is more or less the SAME TRAINING VIDEO from the year before) is just Don't Click Suspicious Links and Look for Spelling/Grammar Errors and Never Give Away Bank Details and Use a VPN on Public WiFi.

My dude. I could cry at this waste of 15 minutes of my life. This is the most reiterated knowledge, some of which is regularly repeated through YouTube VPN sponsorship ads!

Yes, companies need to cover their bases and whatnot but come ON I thought we collectively learned about phishing and scam emails back in the 2000s days of the whole Nigerian prince needs preloaded credit cards scam. Why are we all still being badgered with the same schtick and not on things like, 3rd party tracking data sold to the highest bidder and usage of professional social media that, with everything else, is BEING SCRAPED FOR GENAI HELLO. How is THAT not a "risk to company information"?

Phishing is a problem yeah but for the love of all goodness if we've completed ~training~ on it already, maybe JUST MAYBE. Consider. We don't need to sit through another mind-numbingly generic-ass animated PowerPoint on stuff we already know.

And MAYBE add a slide on your PowerPoint about bigger concerns to protect against.