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How to know what links are malicious on Lemmy? (midwest.social)

submitted 6 days ago by blackberry@midwest.social to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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title. I know Lemmy is global, so I'll see articles and links to sites that I have never heard of. I assume most content is good, but it's also the internet so there has to be assholes somewhere. any good ways to stay proactive about attacks?

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[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

most important is that you have an updated os, browser and adblocker. that alone will make browsing on "fishy" sites pretty safly.

never download or insert any credentials into sites you don't trust. banking etc. only when you insert the url by yourself.

there was a time, where people posted links like this but i guess to many got rickrolled, so they stoped trusting those links. so it became more normal to just post the link like that https://duckduckgo.com/