April Fool's Day is the one day of the year when people critically evaluate news articles before accepting them as true.
No, my April Fools Day prank isn’t that this post is six days late.
But it’s true that people are more closely guarded on April 1st, and it’s that, ‘wait is this real?’ mindset that I’ve tried to instill in users when teaching Security Awareness training.
April Fools is the only holiday based on social engineering, and social engineering is the art of trying to deceive someone, so if someone is asking you to do something or trying to get you to a click a link to read some unbelievable news, chances they’re trying to social engineer you.
I get it it’s hard to know what’s real in today’s world of fake news, and attention grabbing headlines.
No, your unknown rich Uncle didn’t leave you a few million
No, you can’t become a crypto millionaire through a new exchanged based in Thailand
No, Congress didn’t pass a bill to tax walking (wait that one actually sounds plausible)
But you get my point.
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Did anyone fall for any good April Fools Jokes this year?
