Patch Lady – are you safe online?

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Just spotted this… It’s a series of 30 minute webinars next week put on by a company that normally does security assessments for companies.  Their h
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Elly, woody

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Wants you to register. No thanks.

Barry
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mulletback

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Agreed @Barry, clicking on a link on a website (albeit a trusted one) and then being asked to give my email address to a company I’d never heard of before wasn’t the best way of assessing my security score! No thanks.

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I use a throwaway email address.  It has valid questions.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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SueW, jburk07, Elly

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Not ‘signing up’.

In my opinion, if these people were about helping more than profiting, it would be free without that.

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You can use fake email like this to register site:

support@s2me.io.com

admin@s2me.io

customer@s2me.io

 

All three will work with the site. No need to use a throwaway email if you do not have to.

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[rc primak]

As of this moment, Chrome Beta 81, Windows 10 Pro 1909, just fully updated, all ad blockers off, this trick does NOT work. The login page (required) has a redirect which sends a code to the email address you used to sign up. If this address lists their own domain, an endless loop is created, which causes the login page to flash on and off endlessly. No login is possible without two-factor verification as of this posting.

This site is phishy. Do NOT use!

If you want to see what is involved in a real security risk assessment for a business, check out this article.

I have never seen an online “Personal Security Risk Assessment Tool” which was legitimate, and was not set up as a phishing site. They all are trying to sell you something (like a security program) or else they are collecting email addresses and selling them. Every last one.

-- rc primak

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rexr

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Well I used a made up name and email and was allowed to register and complete the test. Well almost – I got as far as “99% complete”, but there was no way to proceed to 100% and get a final report. All I could do is go into my profile and read the answers to my questions and get their feedback answer to each question. But that covers 9 different pages and there is no simple PDF to download that consolidates and shows everything and giving an overall score (Not that an overall score actually means very much – a weakness is a weakness).

But as someone mentioned above – they are good valid questions and their feedback is usefull.

RobB

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