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Check your email address(s) and passwords for cyber security breaches

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PlainName:

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Yes, but imagine for a moment that it's a great deal but not an unbelievable one. Or even just a so-so deal. However, that's just one simple example and in this type of hack the first chink is used to open chinks elsewhere, leading to a chain of security failures. There's a classic example of a journo that got his Apple account wiped through a non-Apple related security breech. Although this was due to an email screwup, the same thing applies - it's simply persuading whoever needs to be persuaded that the writer of the messages is pukka when they are not. From small acorns... etc.

asmi:
I recently started using unique emails for each website I want to register on by using Cloudflare's free email forwarding service. All you need for this is to register any domain (cost depends on a zone and registrar, it can be anywhere from a few bucks and all the way into many tens per year), and use Cloudflare for DNS (free!), and set up incoming email forwarding (again, free!). This way if you start getting spam, you can easily see the source of a leak, turn off forwarding for that email address and perhaps contact the owner of the website and let them know about the leak (there is a change that it was intential, but if you choose sites you hang on responsibly, it's quite low, in most cases it will be some kind of problem with the website).

Marsha Ashley:
Edit by gnif: Post content removed, was a SPAM post

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: Marsha Ashley on January 30, 2023, 02:06:36 pm ---Checking your email addresses and passwords against known leaks is a great way to ensure your personal information is secure.

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Anyone else smell bacon?

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