Employees learn nothing from phishing security training, and this is why

MicroStockHub/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Phishing is a major and growing threat to businesses.But phishing awareness training has a minimal success rate.Researchers urge organizations to invest in countermeasures. A new study has confirmed what many of us suspected — employee phishing training is simply not worth…

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SSA's chief data officer files a whistleblower complaint that DOGE uploaded a database with every Social Security number ever issued to an insecure cloud server (Nicholas Nehamas/New York Times)

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