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GoDaddy phishes employees with fake bonus email

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/24/22199406/godaddy-wins-2020-stupidity-award

by alangibson • 6 years ago

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aurizon• 6 years ago

Go-daddy does need to rubustly protect their site and client data. A compromised major registrar can wreak havoc via domain stealing and we have seen how hard these hijacks are to unwind, google the sex.com hijack - took years. So they need to give each of their suckered employees a caution as well as a carrot($$). The hijackers often try such schemes, so awareness needs to be high - defences also must be high, so multiple entry(2-3 means) verification is needed,

underseacables• 6 years ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25529584

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