Why It Pays to Submit to Hackers

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/hackers-walk-all-over-you/

Why It Pays to Submit to Hackers
By Ryan Tate
08.10.12 2:17 PM

Every big online security breach seems to end in a big lecture. Use strong 
passwords, users are told. Make fresh logins for every website. Back up 
your data. Encrypt all your stuff.

That familiar chorus began again after our own Mat Honan suffered a hack 
attack in which three different internet accounts were seized and three 
computing devices wiped of their data. .Turn On Gmail.s 2-Step 
Verification Now,. wrote James Fallows on The Atlantic.s website, adding 
to similar security lectures from The New York Times, Lifehacker, 
TechCrunch, a Google engineer, etc.

If that advice sounds familiar, it should. Just this past June, after 6 
million LinkedIn passwords were exposed to hackers, Fallows wrote about 
.the one step you must take today. . improving your login security . 
adding to similar security lectures from The New York Times, Lifehacker, 
TechCrunch, a Google engineer, etc.

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