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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley After watching the technology-related advertisements from this year’s Super Bowl, my takeaway was that we are a gullible
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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my takeaway was that we are a gullible

Totally agree!! Was watching the game with family. A young one (30-something) jumped up immediately when he saw the QR code and frantically tried to not to miss clicking it (his phone wasn’t cooperating)!!! I was alarmed and said, “Don’t click it, what are you doing?!!” To no avail.  So gullible. So trusting………of what? or who?  Big sigh.

Maybe is it somewhat generational?? Me – 60 something didn’t even budge to click. Doesn’t register on my radar.  Him 30 something couldn’t wait to get it. For that instance of clicking a QR code.  In general people are very gullible (unconcerned about security) and on the elder side – probably more so than the younger (I’m talking to you mom!) : )

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Always like a good Defensive Computing article
Two small points:

There is an explanation of the rules for domain names here
https://defensivecomputingchecklist.com/DomainNameRules.php
Someone who knows the rules, won’t get fooled again.

Hovering a mouse over a ink usually shows where you will end up, but not always. I detailed some of the hovering scams here

Hover a mouse over a link – just don’t trust the results
https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/HoverOverLink.php

Get up to speed on router security at RouterSecurity.org and Defensive Computing at DefensiveComputingChecklist.com

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I have paused updates to Feb 22/22. With DEFCON 2 still in effect should I add another week?

B.Stanton

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Stay tuned. An alert going out shortly.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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