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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 18 points 2 months 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 7 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

This feels very Boomer