Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
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Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#2He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#3He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
If your response to every bit of news that contradicts your worldview is a reflexive "it's made up", then reality has come apart at the seams and nothing is real.
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#4He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
I don't understand. Is the 'he' in this case Eric Geller or Tom Burt? Does your post mean that you suspect the reporting doesn't go far enough to verify Microsoft's claims or that Microsoft is falsifying their report?
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#5on a surely completely unrelated note, microsoft is also one of the first companies to participate in PRISM. but i'm sure they are completely trustworthy
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#6He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
I guess technically true but I still don't get why you say it? Any special reason why you mention this when it comes to this article?
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#7He could have made it all up and the article would have looked the same.
If your response to every bit of news that contradicts your worldview is a reflexive "it's made up", then reality has come apart at the seams and nothing is real.
This is jacquesm. jacquesm usually is reasonable AFAIK.
So I argue we do not go down this road right away.
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#8on a surely completely unrelated note, microsoft is also one of the first companies to participate in PRISM. but i'm sure they are completely trustworthy
I'm not happy about PRISM either, but complying with three letter agencies is hardly a point against their general trustworthyness. Maybe on privacy issues but not generally.
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#9I think the press should do a better job distinguishing between hacking attempts and phishing attempts. Phishing attempts are largely avoidable and it would serve not just the politicians but the public to be educated on best practices to avoid being phished.
At my previous company we were tested once a month to learn how to identify suspicious landing pages or links/domains.
Re: Microsoft reveals first known midterm campaign hacking attempts
#10I think the press should do a better job distinguishing between hacking attempts and phishing attempts. Phishing attempts are largely avoidable and it would serve not just the politicians but the public to be educated on best practices to avoid being phished. At my previous company we were tested once a month to learn how to identify suspicious landing pages or links/domains.
I don't know anybody who specializes professionally in phishing that believes this. What I hear from those kinds of people, and many others, is the opposite: that especially when you're trying to secure an organization, the one attack you feel helpless to prevent is targeted phishing. Technologists in particular are apparently easy to victimize; they underestimate how malleable the medium is, and how well sophisticated attackers understand the cues we all rely on to evaluate the legitimacy of messages and gate the shortcuts most of us take.
My suspicion is that anyone who downplays phishing attacks is betraying a lack of understanding of how scarily effective targeted phishing attacks are.