I personally feel that the fact that it was such an effortless attempt makes it more impressive, and really hammers home the lesson we need to take away from this. It’s one thing to put in a great deal of effort to defeat some defences. It’s another to completely smash through them with the flick of a wrist.
I haven’t actually figured that out yet, but several people in this thread have proposed takeaways. I’m leaning towards “social engineering is unreasonably effective”. That or something related to keeping a security mindset.
I personally feel that the fact that it was such an effortless attempt makes it more impressive, and really hammers home the lesson we need to take away from this. It’s one thing to put in a great deal of effort to defeat some defences. It’s another to completely smash through them with the flick of a wrist.
What exactly do you think “the lesson we need to take away from this” is?
(Feel free to just link if you wrote that elsewhere in this comment section)
I haven’t actually figured that out yet, but several people in this thread have proposed takeaways. I’m leaning towards “social engineering is unreasonably effective”. That or something related to keeping a security mindset.