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The morons that fall for phishing are ALWAYS going to fall for it. Everyone else is able to tell its bullshit.

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>Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless, two researchers said at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday. In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%.

The morons that fall for phishing are ALWAYS going to fall for it. Everyone else is able to tell its bullshit. Archive: https://archive.today/ElZmm From the post: >>Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless, two researchers said at the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday. In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%.

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Finally, she said, it turns out that a lot of people completely ignore phishing training. Many of the test subjects closed the post-click page they were shown so quickly that the researchers couldn't measure their dwell time.

This would be the producer segment of the employee pool. They have no time for email - let alone phishing.