If your company's mail server alerts you that your password has changed, you must double-check it. You are aware that you haven't changed the password! The password has been changed. Why? What systems and viruses would have provided an attacker with the information needed to alter the password?

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If your company's mail server alerts you that your password has changed, you must double-check it. You are aware that you haven't changed the password! The password has been changed. Why? What systems and viruses would have provided an attacker with the information needed to alter the password?

 

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