Email from your company's mail server notifies you that your password has been changed, and you must confirm this. It's possible that you haven't updated your account's password, though. What's the reason for changing the password? What systems may have been infected with malware that allowed an attacker to change the password

Email from your company's mail server notifies you that your password has been changed, and you must confirm this. It's possible that you haven't updated your account's password, though. What's the reason for changing the password? What systems may have been infected with malware that allowed an attacker to change the password

Enhanced Discovering Computers 2017 (Shelly Cashman Series) (MindTap Course List)

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Author:Misty E. Vermaat, Susan L. Sebok, Steven M. Freund, Mark Frydenberg, Jennifer T. Campbell

Publisher:Misty E. Vermaat, Susan L. Sebok, Steven M. Freund, Mark Frydenberg, Jennifer T. Campbell

Chapter5: Digital Security, Ethics, And Privacy: Threats, Issues, And Defenses

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 2.1E

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You must confirm your new password if your company's email server tells you that it has been changed. There has been no change to the password, as far as you know. The passphrase is now different. Why? In what ways may a hacker have gained access to the system to alter the password, and through what malware?
Take into account the following: You get a message from the company's email server asking you to verify a password change. The password hasn't been changed, has it? When and why did you decide to switch your password? How did an attacker get access to change the password? Was there a virus, and if so, on which computers?
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Verify your old and new passwords as soon as the mail server for your workplace alerts you that your password has been changed. You are correct in believing that the password has not been altered in any way. There has been a modification made to the password. Why? What malicious software and which computer systems may have provided the hacker with the information necessary to alter the password?
Let's pretend you've received a message from the company's email server informing you that your account's password has been changed and requesting confirmation. Yet, you do not believe that you have altered the password. Why do you think the password was altered? Is there a way to tell what kind of malware was present and on what computers if it was used to reset the password?
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