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New Password Not Enough to Secure Hacked E-mail Account

Google s advice to owners of compromised Gmail accounts Woefully Inadequate, says Web Security Expert Caleb Sima. Sima: Change your password is good advice, but its extremely insufficient. He says any decent attacker will have at least one backdoor to regain control of your account so quickly that it will make your head spin. The best method for an attacker to get back into your account is to keep reading your emails even after you ve changed your password, Sima says.

Source: https://threatpost.com/new-password-not-enough-secure-hacked-e-mail-account-100410/74544/

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