PSA: I tried to run a 'zero-click' ad campaign for our endpoint security and accidentally triggered a spam filter that flagged our own domain...

Our entire email list got a warning from Google about us for a week, which taught me that sometimes the scariest threat actor in your marketing is you.

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nancy8171d ago

Oof, that's a special kind of self-own right there. You basically built a digital scarecrow that ended up chasing you off your own farm. It's like your security software saw the ad and went "That's the most suspicious thing I've ever seen, must be us!" How long did it take to convince everyone you weren't actually hacked?

anthony1291d ago

Lol right? I did something like that once with a weird email filter. It locked me out of my own inbox for a day, it was so dumb. Took forever to explain to IT that I was the problem.

the_viola1d ago

Used to think our own systems were the safe ones, but stories like yours and anthony129's show how they can backfire. Guess the best security tools still need a human who isn't about to trip all the alarms.