“...using multi-factor authentication — ideally using an authenticator app, not text messages”
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Why would text messages be a bad way to add a factor in authentication? It goes to the device or number where the “authenticator app” is.
Personally, I find the idea of an “authenticator app” creepy.
I have nothing to ransom
NEVER click on ANY links from email or IN messages you don’t recognize
Never answer unknown calls either, don’t open the door to scams, block/report spam. Don’t be stupid.
I have friends that still use aol and Juno email accounts - I don’t think they ever get hacked
Got one in Hotmail saying it had my info and would “release it unless I paid”, but I didn’t open it as it was from my own address (spoofed)- I look3d at the source rather than open it- which zpparently is safer. Also was on linux at the time, so again, another lever of protection.
To view source, right cl8ck an unopened email, and choose “source” or “view source” or something like that. You can check out pertinent details like where it is actually from, which is why I viewed the source as it looked like it was from my email address. They threatened to “release Incriminating evidence” if I didn’t pay up, which was a crock because I don’t have anything to hide- there is no incriminating evidence to reveal- however, with ai becoming prominent now, deep fakes will be produced and used as blackmail no doubt- i think the internets is gonna get ugly (or rather uglier than it already is) in the near future-.
That would be good advice even without this business.
bkmk
This extorction attempt was in my morning email:
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