3 in 10 employees fall for test-phishing done by their bosses

Late in August 2019 www.stuff.co.nz featured an article with the above title by Rob Stock. In this article the risk of company's employees being phished was highlighted after two Air New Zealand employees were tricked by phishing emails into handing over data that revealed personal information of 112,000 airpoints customers. The article highlighted that companies are now test phishing their own employees to ensure their staff are security educated enough to reduce the risk of attacks. It is seen as far better for organisations to work out the weak links in their workforce by phishing their own employees than waiting for a real phishing attack to reveal them.

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The complete Stuff article can be found here.