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Do you use an antivirus? Why, or why not?
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Smart people are not immune to moments of panic or laziness or cockiness. I don't know about you, but I don't always check email headers even tho that's the closest to best way to verify the identity of the sender. And if that link verifiably goes to a website I trust, and I was expecting them to reach out, and I just have to login to check my orders and... wait, why does the url have a "redir=" parameter? Oh fuck oh god oh fuck why does the login page say "amzaon.com" instead of "amazon.com" like in the email's link??? FUCK DAMMIT SHIT
This is definitely a situation where having a password manager with auto-filling is nice. When you save your login for
amazon.comit ties it to the URL as well. So if you end up going toamzaon.comby any means and don't manage to catch it, your password manager won't fill in your details because it doesn't recognize the domain.Of course, this won't stop you from say, using one of the "Login with Google/Apple/Amazon/etc" buttons on some dodgy website, and granting it access to your account (because you'd be redirected to
google.com/apple.com/amazon.com) but it's at least an layer of "Wait, something isn't right here" when the auto-fill doesn't trigger.Password managers are an absolute must-have in this day and age. That and MFA. And making as few accounts as humanly possible.
But, the more general concepts I'm trying to get at are that pobody's nerfect, you don't know what you don't know you don't know, and we're all just apes prone to lapses in judgment at innoportune times.
Exactly, my last full time gig was in cyber, soc analyst. Stay at home dad now screw all that stress.