Phishing training for employees as currently practiced is essentially useless — two researchers at Black Hat.

In a scientific study involving thousands of test subjects, eight months and four different kinds of phishing training, the average improvement rate of falling for phishing scams was a whopping 1.7%.

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Phishing training is pretty pointless, researchers find

All that phishing training you have to go through barely moves the needle in making your organization safer, two researchers said at the Black Hat security conference.

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