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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:55:10 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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   • Tim Lavoie

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   In $OLDJOB where I was responsible for people at actual risk, a person pinged me with "did you actually send that e-mail?"

   It took *me* a couple of minutes to figure out it was a targeted attack. Coming from a very similar e-mail address to mine. Having *my actual e-mail signature*.

   The attack got blown. Nobody got phished. Later I figured out the attack took 3 months of prep.

   Asked the person how did they know.

   "I didn't. It was a hunch. You told us to trust our hunches." 🎉

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: and Alexandre Oliva like this.
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     Tim Lavoie (tim_lavoie@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:55:11 JST Tim Lavoie

     @rysiek On the flip side, it is also important to welcome phone calls out of the blue from people whose Spidey-sense has tingled a bit, and who trust you enough to sanity check what they're looking at.

     Gives me the warm fuzzies, every time.

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.