An increasing number of websites are asking visitors to approve “push notifications.” In many cases these are harmless. But occasionally, the communication pathways these establish are exploited by cybercriminals. In this episode starring Tia Carrere as Cass, we see Cass help save her mother Doris from falling victim to a cybercrime via a push notification, supposedly from her bank’s website. Watch to learn more about push notifications and safe push notification interaction behavior.
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More information from the Web:
What are push notifications?
https://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/definition/push-notification
Be Very Sparing in Allowing Site Notifications
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11/be-very-sparing-in-allowing-site-notifications/
Browser Push Notifications: Useful Feature Exploited by Deceptive Marketers
Exposed FCM keys leaves billions of users open to mass spam and phishing notifications
How to stop those annoying website notification prompts
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/18/18716041/website-notification-prompts-pop-ups-how-to-stop
