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    501 month ago

    It’s also annoying that Microsoft sends links via sms using a really scratchy looking domain (aka.ms). Turns out they’re legit

    • @[email protected]
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      371 month ago

      They got the .microsoft TLD a while back specifically for this purpose. Supposedly they want to migrate all their cloud services there, but I learned about that a year ago and I’ve only seen it in use once since (IIRC on Loop…)

      And let’s not forget about facebookmail.com, the official mail server for Facebook login notifications since 2004.

      The tech is here, the risks are enormous, but the corpos don’t care because they don’t bear the costs of phishing attacks and governments are too impotent to enforce minimum standards of cybersecurity.

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      I had to make a police report yesterday, and they wanted me to upload evidence. The (text) message they sent was along the lines of: “A. Last name requests evidence from you. Click here to submit evidence. vp.au/evidence

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      But there are so many dodgy similar looking ones that auto complete if you’re typing it.

      I went to type in the aka.ms to find a bit locker recovery key. And didn’t realise it autocorrected to something like akam.ms and it was a super sketchy site about bit locker recovery. Luckily I realised straight away even MS wouldn’t host a website like the one I saw.

    • @reddig33
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      41 month ago

      Link shorteners are the worst.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      11 month ago

      Only reason I knew that was akamai was their hosting for their previous ISO distro system, it does look phish af.