I had an exec at a tech company once send out an email with the subject line "Important." All there was, was an attached .docx file, and a sentence saying to read it immediately. This guy should have been fired for this level of incompetence. No, it wasn't a phishing test.
Then Microsoft sends out e-mail advertisements with fucking QR codes in them to everybody to get people to install software without IT department's knowledge. So you not only can't see the link, you can't even de-obfuscate it by hovering over it.
There's a really easy fix for this. It's so fucking easy it hurts my brain.
Disable HTML e-mails. Disable hyperlinks. Feel free to send URLs, but make people copy and paste the link. This way they have to at least select the link. When they get a 6000 character link and can't copy paste it? That's good! Because they have no idea what the link actually is.
Nobody will do it, and I don't get why not. Do you really need to market to your internal employees so badly with images and links? That's what a portal is for. Post updates on your portal and stop bombarding my goddamn email box.
Then Microsoft sends out e-mail advertisements with fucking QR codes in them to everybody to get people to install software without IT department's knowledge. So you not only can't see the link, you can't even de-obfuscate it by hovering over it.
There's a really easy fix for this. It's so fucking easy it hurts my brain.
Disable HTML e-mails. Disable hyperlinks. Feel free to send URLs, but make people copy and paste the link. This way they have to at least select the link. When they get a 6000 character link and can't copy paste it? That's good! Because they have no idea what the link actually is.
Nobody will do it, and I don't get why not. Do you really need to market to your internal employees so badly with images and links? That's what a portal is for. Post updates on your portal and stop bombarding my goddamn email box.