Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content

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https://htxt.co.za/2025/05/cant-believe-we-have-to-say-this-but-dont-use-your-work-email-for-adult-content/

Kaspersky’s latest report reveals that 4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites.

This is part of a wider trend where 7 percent of compromised data stolen between 2019 and 2024 contained corporate email addresses.

Combined with poor password security, this could lead to corporate email addresses being compromised.

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drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites

How do they know it’s not people who are pissed off at a bank employee who take their business card and sign the person up to adult sites?

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- Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is gonna help me in my meeting with HR tomorrow. Thanks!
  
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  - motor_spirit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    post follow up tips on SLPT 🙏
    
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- Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Usually, have to access the email address to verify.
  
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- schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The dataset might contain only (or be filtered for) confirmed email addresses, ie. where someone actually clicked the confirmation link. That would make this very unlikely.
  
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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People seriously need to learn this lesson.
When I started at my job the previous guy left so much personal info behind I could probably get a loan on his name 🤦‍♂️

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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I feel like I should show up to more meetings with a t-shirt saying “I read your emails”. Granted, this type of thing isn’t at the top of the list of things we’re looking for; but, if we run across it, it’s gonna get reported. Too many people don’t seem to understand that their work computer is not a personal computer.

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- atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  At one point the IT department where I work were asking questions about why I tether my phone to my work laptop when I’m out of the office (working from home). I told them very specifically that I would not connect any device I didn’t have administrator control over to my home network. They didn’t ask anymore questions after that. I have a work phone and work laptop for work things. I use both only for work things. I have two personal computers, and two personal phones (one for messing with roms). I don’t need their hardware for anything in my personal life. Nope. Not even a Google search.
  
  They also asked me if I wanted my personal phone logged into the wifi and I gave them serious side eye before saying no thanks.
  
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I barely use my work email for WORK much less anything else!

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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I seriously can’t believe people even still bother doing this ~~shit ~~ at work but I just had to go through and review access logs and I was stunned at the carp people look at—at work. At work! I always thought I had too much drive but these people take the cake. Ridiculous.

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- SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Look. Sometimes you get distracted and need to find out what a mongoose actually is right now.
  
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Remember to periodically ask your CISO, with specific web page examples, if you can use your work email to create an about there.

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