You know who else is good at targeting executives?
I can’t remember the name… Mario? No, I don’t think that was it.
Link from Zelda?
Luigi from Super Mario!
Yeah that’s the joke.
…I don’t get it.
Quick, somebody write emails to health insurance ceos to trick them to approve all claims!
That’s ok, with how much more they’re paid than everyone else I’m sure they’re all far too clever to be fooled - corporations are the epitome of a meritocracy don’t you know?
You don’t always want the most meritorious at the top. Ever heard of the Peter Principle? Being competent with the task at hand doesn’t always translate into leadership ability.
Can’t find it, but there’s a great quote, maybe by Ford, about hiring. Good engineers are a dime a dozen, the man who can effectively lead those engineers is a rare one.
Meanwhile, people who don’t recognize sarcasm can only make it to middle management.
CEO at my last company refused any security access he didn’t strictly require. He’d just laugh, “Yeah, no, don’t even want that.”
In my IT experience, it’s the department heads, or people an outsider thinks is important, that get spear phished. Job before last, the HR woman got overrun with attacks. LOL, she was the most useless, clueless person in the company but she sounded important on paper. Director of Human Resources. She had two people under her in a 35 employee outfit.
Let me fix that headline : “In 2025 : Executives still don’t care about computing, and even less about cybersecurity”
