alphaboi867, congratulations! Now you can join us in complaining about work.
My small rant for the day: How does IT keep finding fresh new ways to make my life more miserable? They’re starting a new thing where Chrome will be forced to restart if there’s an update. I have a lot of tabs open, and it’s always risky (and slow) to restart Chrome. I do not need new sources of stress in my life. Also I’m still sick and my car that I just bought is leaky and I just want this bad-luck part of my life to go away.
Regarding tabs: when they close, such as when the computer restarts or the browser itself crashes or restarts, your friend is Shift+CTRL+T to bring back the closed tabs.
IT just sent out a new phish test. So obvious, like the phishing attacks from a few years ago. Nothing like the sophisticated attempts we see nowadays. I don’t know if I mad about how they waste my time identifying this crap OR scared that people in my organization fall for it.
This is great when it works, but sometimes Chrome loses all the tabs when it crashes. They are not there anywhere, so they can’t be restored. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but it still makes me very worried.
Speaking as an IT guy, it pisses us off more that we have to do it. Just thank the multiple people that still fall for the “President Asking You To buy ITunes Gift Cards” scam.
I’d free up at least an hour of my time daily if I didn’t have to deal with that crap.
This one was from info@package-delivery.com
Your package could not be delivered and is sitting in a warehouse halfway across the country. We will start charging you $14.63 per day for storage after a week. Open the attachment so we can redirect your package to you.
So when I abused the “Report a phishing email” function by reporting the email telling me I hadn’t completed my anti-phishing training yet, was that a good thing or a bad thing?
There have been several rounds of IT security where I work. About three rounds ago, we got an email with a link to IT security videos which we hadn’t been told we were going to attend.
The majority of people reported the email as phishing. Then they sent out an email saying, no, this is real. This is okay. We’re having you do this.
I just finished my phishing training. It was remarkably okay. No videos. No audio. Sort of web comic style graphics, reading and clicking.
Now the reason I had to do the training: I’m an idiot. Yes I did click on that link in the email purportedly from the boss’s boss. Apparently all but one person who received the email is doing the phishing training including my boss. I’m not alone in my idiocy.
And yes, I did so much want to report the “Do the phishing training” email as phishing.
I’m a software engineer. I have spent a fair amount of my career in the extraordinarily spammy world of online casinos, which, though not necessarily engaged in phishing, often use similar tactics.
I had to do mandatory training on phishing, despite this being pretty useless. I completed it successfully, at around 10:33am
2 weeks later, at 10:33am I got the most stupidly obvious phishing email. Literally, some idiot in IT set the automated “phishing email” to fire off exactly 14 days after my completion of the training, to the minute.
My company outsources some “healthy lifestyle benefits” to an outside organization with an external email address and website. They send out the spammiest email imaginable, complete with a link to login that looks like an internal website (but isn’t) and a “this isn’t spam!” disclaimer. It of course gets marked as spam by a huge number of employees, IT has to deal with many calls and complaints, and corporate gets upset that about “low engagement”. We try to tell them: be happy we take digital hygiene seriously.
I don’t even know if my employer (USPS) does do this kind of thing, but for those of you who do get phishing-alertness checks, what happens if you don’t report the phishing attempt, but you also don’t open the email? I don’t check my email very often (as in: months can go by when I don’t even open Outlook).
According to our IT, I’m too quick on the draw with reporting Phishing. I got an email saying, basically, please just tag these as junk mail, not phishing, because not everything is a phishing attempt. These are the people who have enough time to push nonsensical schedules for password updates, refuse to upgrade my desktop hardware until my computer takes 15 minutes just to boot up in the morning, and refuse to help me update a lapsed password for our maintenance staff without an email from a manager three levels removed on the flowchart even when he’s away for a month.
You know what is not phishing? The emails that come form an outside source called qualitics-systems.com or something asking us to click a link to respond to some questions my district has for all of us. Nope, those are actually from my district and are 100% authentic.
My Suspicious-Looking Email problem is that, starting a year or more ago, messages from companies are starting to come from individuals’ email accounts. So I get a couple of emails from “Meghan Nicholson” with subject lines like “From Now to Wow”, and “Holiday Schedule” and “Welcome New Employees”. Ignored them for months until I was asked why I wasn’t going to our biggest vendor’s annual open house…
Ohhhh, seems that Meghan is the new marketing director, and those cutesy email titles were actual serious communications. Turns out it wasn’t “Welcome, New Employees” but “Welcome New Employees With a Corporate-wide Strategy. We Can Help, Find Out How at Our Big Open House!”
Was this a side-effect of covid/work-at-home, where the mail’s coming directly from Meghan instead of the Marketing Dept,?
Geez, I’m probably missing other companies’ emails, assuming it’s yet another Meghan stalking me…
I rarely report suspicious emails as phishing. I just delete them without even opening them. (I can usually tell from the subject and see enough in the “preview” in my Outlook to figure out if they’re crap or not.) So, if corporate is actually expecting me to flag those, sorry guys.
Actually, since I have to open the email to click the Report Phishing button, I think my way is safer anyway.
I have a lot of tabs open, and it’s always risky (and slow) to restart Chrome. I do not need new sources of stress in my life. Also I’m still sick and my car that I just bought is leaky and I just want this bad-luck part of my life to go away.