How a Password Manager Protects You From Phishing Scams

Password managers make it easy to use strong, unique passwords everywhere. That’s one significant benefit to using them, but there’s another: Your password manager helps protect you from imposter websites trying to “phish” your password.

What Is Phishing, and How Does It Work?

Phishing is designed to trick you into giving your password or other information to an imposter.

For example, let’s say you get an email claiming to be from your bank. The email says your account may be compromised, and you should click this link to take action. You click the link in the email and end up on a site that looks just like your bank’s real website. In a rush to secure your account, you type your password and possibly other details like your credit card number. Boom, you’ve been phished. The attacker now has your bank account’s username and password, as well as any other information you provided. That wasn’t your bank’s real website. You got an email from a scammer.

Security professionals recommend against clicking links in emails like this. Instead, go to your bank account’s website directly and sign in. Similarly, if someone claiming to be from your bank calls you on the phone, it’s a good idea to hang up and call your bank’s customer service number directly to see if the call is legitimate.

You could end up on a phishing site in many other ways. Maybe you click a link to buy something on the web and end up at what looks like Amazon.com or another legitimate store, for example. Perhaps you click a link to email someone and end up on what appears to be a Google login screen for your Gmail account.

It’s All in the URL

There’s one thing you can do to spot phishing sites: Examine the URL, which is the address of the web page. For example, if you bank with Chase, you’d look to verify you were on chase.com. But phishing sites could be clever—for example, a phishing site might use the domain “secure.chase.com.example.com/onlinebanking/login”.

If you understand URLs, you’ll realize that that particular URL is actually hosted on “example.com” and not “chase.com”.

Similarly, some phishing websites will use characters that look similar to other characters. It’s all part of making the URL look similar to the real one. After all, many people likely don’t examine the URL at all. Even people who do may just be trained to look for something like “chase.com.” Not everyone understands how to decode that line of text.

How a Password Manager Helps Protect You

If you use a password manager, you have additional protection. This is true as long as your password manager can automatically fill your credentials, whether it’s 1Password, LastPass, Dashlane, Bitwarden, or even the password-saving feature built right into your web browser.

If you save a login for a website like Chase.com or Amazon.com, your password manager will remember it and offer to automatically fill it in for you when you’re on Chase.com or Amazon.com. If you end up on a different website, your password manager won’t offer to enter your credentials—after all, you’re on a different website. Your password manager doesn’t fall for the disguised URL.

This protection isn’t fancy, and you won’t see a big red “warning” message pop up. But you will quickly notice that wait a minute; your password manager isn’t offering to sign you in on this website. Why is that? Once you’ve noticed something is amiss, you might quickly discover you’re not on the website you thought you were on.

Peace of Mind When Logging In

Your password manager doesn’t just make it faster to enter your credentials while browsing the web. It gives you peace of mind while it goes about its job.

If you’re signing into your email online, you don’t need to double-check the domain before typing your username and password. You know that, if your password manager is offering to fill your credentials automatically, it’s already checked that the domain is a match with the one saved in your database.

This Works on Smartphones, Too

Of course, the same features are available when you use a password manager on a mobile device like an iPhone, iPad, or Android phone. Use your password manager to enter credentials, and you’ll be protected from phishing on the mobile web, too.

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How to Export Exchange 2016 Mailboxes to PST – PowerShell

The practice of exporting mailbox data to PST using PowerShell commands is becoming a popular option because more users are migrating to Exchange Server’s latest 2016 version. In this latest release, Microsoft has added many new features and one of them is a cmdlet for exporting mailbox data to PST files. However,  this option is available only in on-premises Exchange Server 2016.

Since exporting a mailbox to PST is an important form of granular backup, we would like to share our expertise on Exchange 2016 cmdlet New-MailboxExportRequest, and will show you how you can easily export Exchange 2016 mailboxes data to PST format by simply using this PowerShell in an Exchange Management Shell.

But New-MailboxExportRequest command is available only in Mailbox Import Export role, and not to a role group. To use this command, you have to add the Mailbox Import Export role to a role group. Check here to know how to add a role to a role group.

Once you’ve assigned a role to a role group, you can perform the below PowerShell steps to Export Exchange Server mailboxes data.

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How to convert ost to pst manually

While both OST and PST files perform specific functions, sometimes users face a deadlock when it comes to OST files. They cannot access their mailbox information in the case of non-availability of Exchange Server. And Exchange can face downtime, crash, or other technical issues at any instance. In such an event, converting the OST to PST remains the only viable option. But the process to convert OST to PST manually is a challenging task that involves multiple steps. So how can the users achieve OST to PST conversion, easily?

Offline Storage Table or OST plays an important role in saving Microsoft Exchange mailbox data in an offline folder. It helps the users to work in offline mode when there is no Internet connection, limited connectivity, or Exchange unavailability.

It simply represents a local cache of Microsoft Exchange account and syncs all the changes automatically to the Exchange server, as soon as you are connected to the Internet. Personal Storage Table or PST stores all the email data like emails, notes, contacts, tasks, calendar, etc. of the users in a local system. It is used for the actual storage and not cache storage. It keeps the emails in the same hierarchy as the main Inbox and is quite flexible.

When both OST and PST files have their distinct roles and functionalities, why do users feel the need to convert OST to PST manually? Let us find out.

Now that we know the need for OST to PST conversion, let us see how to convert OST to PST.

 

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Cum resetezi aplicația de Mail din Windows 10

Windows 10 are câteva bundle-uri foarte utile pentru utilizatori, una dintre cele mai utile aplicații pe care le putem găsi pe Windows 10 este aplicația de email. Dar, ca și multe alte produse Microsoft din zilele noastre este considerată ‘Work In Progress’, ceea ce înseamnă că este posibil să întâmpini diferite erori cu aplicația în timp ce o vei folosii.

Mulți utilizatori se plâng că email-urile nu li se sincronizează, aplicația nu se mai deschide, probleme adăugând conturi noi de email, anumite setări nu funcționează și multe alte probleme. Pe când majoritatea problemelor sunt din cauza setărilor contului, mai mereu aceste probleme pot fi rezolvate doar prin simpla resetare a aplicației de email din Windows.

În ghidul următor vă voi învăța pașii necesari pentru resetarea aplicației de email din windows.

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