Clinton Team IT Skills

[Dale00]

If you get a notice from your email provider or your bank or anyone who holds sensitive information of yours saying that your account has been compromised, you leave the email, open your web browser, type in the URL of the website, and then manually open your account information. Again, let me emphasize: You never click on the link in the email!

But what makes this story so priceless isn’t that John Podesta got fooled by an fourth-rate phishing scam. After all, he’s just the guy who’s going to be running Hillary Clinton’s administration. What does he know about tech? And Podesta, to his credit, knew what he didn’t know: He emailed the Clinton IT help desk and said, Hey, is this email legit?

And the Clinton tech team’s response was: Hell yes!

No, really. Here’s what they said: One member of the team responded to Podesta by saying “The gmail one is REAL.” Another answered by saying “This is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately.”

It’s like the Clinton IT department is run by 90-year-old grandmothers.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/and-now-for-some-comic-relief/article/2005199?custom_click=rss

 

[Hobbes]

Anyone interested in more detailed explanation of the hack should read this

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ho...john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts


Especially recommended for the IT support type folks.

 

[John6185]

And I read somewhere that one should close out the particular site that asked for your information and then go to the browser and enter the ligitimate address.