Comment on I started to get these daily at random hours, even when I'm sleeping. Someone's trying to hack me?
ech@lemm.ee 1 month agoThis is all good information and seems well intentioned, but it’s worth pointing out in a post about account security that clicking links provided by others and giving it your login information is very unwise. For the given link, it’d be better to recommend going through a primary microsoft page or login that can be confirmed by the user and getting to the activity history page from there.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That is wonderful advice and I’m glad you pointed that out. :)
If I knew how to give directions to the page, I would, but unfortunately I don’t know the Microsoft site layout, only the URL that their help center directed to.
In mitigation of my indiscretion: it’s generally safer to trust a person you approach out of nowhere than to trust someone who approaches you out of nowhere.
Since they chose the venue and asked the question, the likelihood that an attacker is present in the replies is lower than the expectation that an unsolicited email is from an attacker.
But it’s also entirely correct to be distrustful of anything anyone asks you to click on, triply so if it involves security or login pages.
OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 1 month ago
For MS guides there usually is an article under support.microsoft.com or learn.microsoft.com (usually more advanced, admin related documentation for company / enterprise level stuff) domains. Here’s an article for checking activity.