Imagine you get a message from the company's email server informing you that your password has been changed and requesting confirmation. But you know you haven't changed the password, right? Why do you think the password was changed? What kind of virus would have been present, and on what computers, that would have given an attacker the information they needed to successfully reset the password?

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Imagine you get a message from the company's email server informing you that your password has been changed and requesting confirmation. But you know you haven't changed the password, right? Why do you think the password was changed? What kind of virus would have been present, and on what computers, that would have given an attacker the information they needed to successfully reset the password?

 

 

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