Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Question about Safari security (spam/malware) Date: 7 Aug 2018 03:35:15 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net G4vqFqbSUhnsedcSwx2afAKyAv8YHKe7UIiDgztWrRmCbDP0s0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TkO0NXUYN0P42HIbWIt3y6VJgjc= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:117620 On 2018-08-07, JF Mezei wrote: > On 2018-08-06 18:27, Jolly Roger wrote: > >> Nope. Take a look at System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy. > > Thanks. Wioth Firefox having become unreliable at rendering certain web > sitres for me, I have increased my reliance on Safari but know little of > it. Those settings tell me that no malware within Safari process should > have access to my contacts. > >> Form mail phishing schemes have to make assumptions like that to scare >> people into doing their bidding. Social engineering like that obviously >> works on a lot of people. > > Yep, I realize this. But since this one had a passwords which I have > used, I took it a but more seriously and wanted to find out if any of > their claims were possible. I knew the web cam wasn't because mine isn't > normally connected. I highly recommend going to https://haveibeenpwned.com and then search your keychain for any accounts using that account and change their passwords ASAP. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR