One of the most common pieces of advice given by security experts is to change passwords frequently.
Fifth, immediately change passwords and reset access rights whenever someone leaves your employment.
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This effort culminated this week with a companywide requirement to change passwords.
The key is to remain skeptical, avoid unknown links, verify claims and make sure you change passwords on important accounts on a fairly regular basis.
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The site is sending out emails to customers advising them to change their passwords.
Yahoo apologized in the statement and urged users to change their passwords on a regular basis.
The company has forced all affected users to change their passwords and reset their session tokens.
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If you have already installed, uninstall them immediately and change your passwords on other websites if possible.
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"Our only advice to customers at the moment is to change their passwords, " said Technology Manager James Innes.
In the meantime, the company apologized for the breach and is advising users to change their passwords accordingly.
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Despite this, it said it would urge people to change their passwords to thwart attempts to take over Yahoo accounts.
Traystman says she immediately texted a friend and asked that person to change the passwords and delete some of her messages.
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We encourage users to change their passwords on a regular basis and also familiarize themselves with our online safety tips at security.yahoo.com.
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Many security experts have recommended that users change their passwords.
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You must immediately change the bank accounts, cancel any credit cards to which the caregiver could have had access and change all passwords in your electronic banking.
The rather obvious lesson for employers in all of this: Take control of your social media accounts, change the passwords, and restrict access before you let go of the employees who run those accounts.
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Rapid7, one of the two firms that confirmed the breach, has suggested in a statement to press that users should indeed change their passwords, but that a single switch may not keep them safe.
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Nothing about how long your computer can be inactive before if automatically logs you off, nothing about how often you have to change your passwords and certainly nothing about all those other things we so often claims it makes us do.
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Yesterday it emerged that Last Pass, a service that syncs with browsers to let you control a variety of passwords with one master password, had asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.
It was also contacting users to tell them to change their login passwords.
Password manager Last Pass has asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.
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