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How would you know that the site's been hacked, and if you do, why would you visit it?
by brigandish 4y ago
How would you know that the site's been hacked, and if you do, why would you visit it?
- autotune 4y agoI recently was looking into the possibility of finding a local tax prep service for the mess that is my taxes from 2020. I stumbled upon a website that was highly rated on Google and looked completely professional, so naturally I let my guard down a bit while browsing it. Before I knew it one of their navigation links in this otherwise professional looking site redirected me to some malware spewing porn site that probably would have downloaded and installed itself on my machine if I was not using uBlock Origin and on Mac. It's super easy to get tricked these days even when you are security conscious 95 percent of the time, it only takes that one 5 percent chance to go wrong.
- latchkey 4y agoI don't know that the site has been hacked, that's the point. I'd rather not automatically throw my password into a form when I visit a site. It seems like a kind of obvious thing to me.
- albuic 4y agoThe goal of a password manager is to use random password, one generated for each website, so that if one is leaked... Well, nothing more ! So having autofill is a good feature.
- latchkey 4y agoSure and I use that feature... But, you aren't thinking like a hacker. Leaking one site could allow someone access into another site. For example, if I've integrated API keys from one site into another. It is those sorts of targets that hackers really look for.