Friday, November 24, 2023

WARNING Dangerous Popups and Notifications

 Some of us are plagued by pop-ups and notifications. Hackers are increasing their efforts to get victims to click on links, notifications, and pop-ups.

A few recent examples:



These "features" enable web sites to design notifications that appear to come from macOS.

For macOS you can setup to limit these notifications and pop-ups.

MacOS System Settings > Notifications > Application Notifications
Now choose the applications you wish to have notifications.

For Safari Settings > Websites > Notifications and enable or disable the web sites as desired.
Then Safari Settings > Websites > Pop-up Windows and choose websites as desired.

The more real the notification and/or pop-up appears - the more caution should be exercised.

   


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