{"id":26455,"date":"2014-06-23T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26455"},"modified":"2014-06-23T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:36:21","slug":"justice-department-staff-fall-for-phishing-scam-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/justice-department-staff-fall-for-phishing-scam-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department staff fall for phishing scam simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t speak well of the federal government&#8217;s staff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/2014\/06\/22\/mock-email-scam-ensnares-hundreds-of-bureaucrats-at-justice-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\">security training<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the Justice Department\u2019s finest legal minds are falling prey to a garden-variety Internet scam.<\/p>\n<p>An internal survey shows almost 2,000 staff were conned into clicking on a phoney \u201cphishing\u201d link in their email, raising questions about the security of sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The department launched the mock scam in December as a security exercise, sending emails to 5,000 employees to test their ability to recognize cyber fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The emails looked like genuine communications from government or financial institutions, and contained a link to a fake website that was also made to look like the real thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more interesting is that the government bureaucrats fell for this scam at a far higher rate than average Canadian internet users:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Justice Department\u2019s mock exercise caught 1,850 people clicking on the phoney embedded links, or 37 per cent of everyone who received the emails.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a much higher rate than for the general population, which a federal website says is only about five per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise did not put any confidential information at risk, but the poor results raise red flags about public servants being caught by actual phishing emails.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman says \u201cno privacy breaches have been reported\u201d from any real phishing scams at Justice Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Carole Saindon also said that two more waves of mock emails in February and April show improved results, with clicking rates falling by half.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in an earlier test, our public servants were clicking on phishing links well over 50% of the time? Yikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t speak well of the federal government&#8217;s staff security training: Many of the Justice Department\u2019s finest legal minds are falling prey to a garden-variety Internet scam. An internal survey shows almost 2,000 staff were conned into clicking on a phoney \u201cphishing\u201d link in their email, raising questions about the security of sensitive information. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,15],"tags":[156,334],"class_list":["post-26455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-technology","tag-fail","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6SH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26456,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26455\/revisions\/26456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}