The perils of not proof reading

[Markverhyden]

We all are guilty of this. In a rush, type up a response to an email, sms, etc and hit send without further review.

There is an article today in the New York Times, link below, about The Hacking Team's business as well as hack back in 7/2015. Which in itself is interesting.

But one item stood out which I was not aware of. The DNC emails issue. The whale was John Podesta, chairman of Clinton's campaign, target in a spear phishing operation. Turns out a tech (DNC IT support) did not proof read and just hit send.

Nearly two years later, John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, was faced with a similar judgment call. An email warned him that someone in Ukraine had tried to access his Gmail account and asked him to click on a button and reset his password. His senior adviser forwarded the email to one of the campaign’s technology experts. “This is a legitimate email,” he replied, in what the expert later would clarify was a simple typing error on his part; he meant to say it was not legitimate. “The gmail one is REAL,” the senior adviser wrote to Podesta and another aide.

Oops!

This is something I'm always telling customers. When in doubt, do not. Contact me. I've had several similar situations, usually popup warnings while browsing. But a few have been similar type emails, including bank related emails.

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/magazine/cyberwar-for-sale.html