Armand here again reporting for Tech Essentials. This week, I’m writing to you from…my mom’s basement. This is so that I can try and get in the mindset of a cybercriminal trying to leverage AI to perpetrate a sophisticated email scam.
If you’ve spent this past workweek furiously trying to figure where I’d wind up for this installment of Tech Essentials (and hopefully win your office betting pool), you can now put your pencils down because I’ve arrived in Pisa, Italy.
This week, I’m visiting you from a nondescript vacant lot on the outskirts of Pasadena, California. “Armand,” you ask. “You’re a long way from Davos! You’re usually in such posh locations when you report to us for Tech Essentials.”
Greetings from Lagos, Nigeria! I’m here to meet up with a very wealthy prince who is generously willing to share in his vast fortune with me if I can just “do the needful” and give him some innocuous information about myself.
“A sensitive email sent to a mistyped Gmail address is likely to land in some real person’s inbox. Get an email mis-send kill switch with RPost. Just switch it!”
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