Identity IQ

MAY 13, 2024

How to Help Protect Yourself from a Data Breach While the threat to your personal security can be extremely unsettling, regular privacy scans, strong passwords and authentication, updated software, and being mindful as to what you share online, are major preventative measures you can practice daily to significantly help mitigate this risk.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Like the quote in the HSBC article above, Occam's Razor (the simplest solution tends to be the correct one) would suggest that the Twitter situation has the same root cause: people choosing poor passwords which they then reuse across services and attackers then use those exposed in one location to break into accounts in another location.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 1, 2021

Passwords are a hot topic on social media at the moment, due to the re-emergence of a discussion about good password management practices. There’s a wealth of password management options available, some more desirable than others. The primary recommendation online is usually a software-based management tool.

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