Allure of the gaming honey trap
By Linda King, G2G3
A new press release on computerweekly.com reports on how a third of senior staff at top UK firms, including the FTSE250, have fallen for an online game honey trap, which was set to test their security awareness.
A link to the game “Bish Bash Bosh” (showing President Bush being kicked out of the White House by Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton) was distributed anonymously in December and January. Whilst the focus of the press release is the ever-so-shocking fact that so many senior employees clicked on the unsecured link (and during working hours!), it fails to consider or discuss the reasons why. Gaming is seductive. Why else would they have called this game a ‘honey trap’? People love to play and find this kind of interaction simply irresistible. If you can combine this sort of gaming with positive business learning outcomes, then you’re onto a winner....
A new press release on computerweekly.com reports on how a third of senior staff at top UK firms, including the FTSE250, have fallen for an online game honey trap, which was set to test their security awareness.
A link to the game “Bish Bash Bosh” (showing President Bush being kicked out of the White House by Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton) was distributed anonymously in December and January. Whilst the focus of the press release is the ever-so-shocking fact that so many senior employees clicked on the unsecured link (and during working hours!), it fails to consider or discuss the reasons why. Gaming is seductive. Why else would they have called this game a ‘honey trap’? People love to play and find this kind of interaction simply irresistible. If you can combine this sort of gaming with positive business learning outcomes, then you’re onto a winner....
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