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Fake site set up by the Bundestag tricked several politicians into giving away their passwords and login credentials.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No shock there. The higher up the pecking order you go the more likely the person is to fail thos tests.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yup. More power leads to lower enforcement, less training and education, and more acceptance of “minor failings” like this one.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

We have a company that sends us fake phishing attacks every month, logs who clicks on the bad link, and publishes the results of the survey to the CTO.

Seems like a position as important as MP should have something similar set up for their governmental email accounts.

[–] leds@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago

So surprise, the endless legitimate single sign ons on seemingly random websites where users need to enter their password are to blame for this.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago

This feels very Boomer