Securing the Tech: Alternate Email Domains, and Why You Should Never Use One
Recently my wife came to me with a problem. She was locked out of her account at a major social media site. She said her password wasn't working. She had just changed it recently but had never logged out and back in again so wasn't sure if she had recorded the new one correctly. She had already tried the password recovery and reset options via email but she wasn't getting any messages from the company in her inbox. I searched her inbox for messages from the company and found a previous password reset email. The email came from security@facebookmail.com. My blood went cold. A domain name like this is one of the tricks hackers use to get people to trust their emails. I immediately ran a search of the WHOIS database which contains a listing of who owns particular domain names. I found the facebookmail.com is in fact owned by Facebook's parent company Meta. I have seen this from a number of companies. Instead of using a well-established domain name such Facebook.com th