• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    They’ll waste like 5 seconds scanning it and seeing it’s a malicious zip file. if they have a halfway competent it dept it’ll be scanned, flagged, and quarantined before they even have a chance to open it

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        As much as it’s a funny thing to say, Fox News does have some kind of minimally competent IT department. We can infer this from the fact that they weren’t buried in hack attempts a long time ago.

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          And stuff like this isn’t tough to handle. Any halfway competent email security toolset is going to be examining the contents of incoming compressed files. If extracting the zip file takes longer than x, toss it. If extracting reaches a size over y, toss it.