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A website asks you to enter a Microsoft/Google/Facebook password. How do you know it is safe?

I would never put a username and password into a website that is not the site with which they are registered. Like ever. Now it is common for things like single sign on to let you "identify ...
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A website asks you to enter a Microsoft/Google/Facebook password. How do you know it is safe?

I used to write training material for this exact problem, as one of our clients had very poor email security, and our most effective material were posters posted in high-trafic areas that trained ...
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A website asks you to enter a Microsoft/Google/Facebook password. How do you know it is safe?

Check the browser address bar carefully Browsers nowadays highlight the main domain in the address, and attempt to ensure there are no tricks with e.g. lookalike characters from foreign symbols. This ...
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A website asks you to enter a Microsoft/Google/Facebook password. How do you know it is safe?

Passkeys can solve this. A passkey can only be used on the website you created it for. When logging in on a PC, you can also use a passkey stored on your phone.[1] Password managers are also ...
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