At the beginning of Smash Bros Ultimate, some people jokingly tried to make “Smush” a thing (since the previous, fourth game, officially Super Smash Bros for 3DS/for Wii U, was often referred to as Sm4sh for short).
I’ve worked in IT for 15 years and it’s the first time I’ve heard SMS phishing condensed to smishing. But I specialize in servers and server security, so I’m not too surprised it’s a thing.
When I first read they were sending smishing texts I thought hey this is neat, some kind of kink that I can spend the day learning about, but then I read about the sms phising thing and was disappointed.
I had never heard that term before. Is it just a UKism, or am I one of today’s lucky 10,000?
“Smishing” sounds like kiwi slang for playing Smash Bros
We were smishing in the shid!
At the beginning of Smash Bros Ultimate, some people jokingly tried to make “Smush” a thing (since the previous, fourth game, officially Super Smash Bros for 3DS/for Wii U, was often referred to as Sm4sh for short).
I’ve worked in IT for 15 years and it’s the first time I’ve heard SMS phishing condensed to smishing. But I specialize in servers and server security, so I’m not too surprised it’s a thing.
Open Source Security Podcast with Josh Bresher and Kurt Sigfried. It’s a pretty good source of news and discussion from a sysadmin perspective.
Not just UK. It’s a stupid term that organizations use in cybersecurity trainings but no one else uses.
Yeah, I had to do a security cert last year and it had a bunch of made up sounding crap like that.
It feels like one of those where the people that have expertise enough to name new things are not experts in naming things.
I encountered Quishing the other day - the inadvertent scanning of QR codes that take a browser to a malformed URL or site with malware embedded.
Back in my day, it was just called “being a bit dense”, especially as most cameras/QR readers will offer you a prompt to go to a website first.
Developers are notoriously bad at naming anything. Cybersecurity experts are generally developers.
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When I first read they were sending smishing texts I thought hey this is neat, some kind of kink that I can spend the day learning about, but then I read about the sms phising thing and was disappointed.