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Here at Version One, we had two nightmarish weekends in early February when our accounts were hacked by pretty sophisticated and aggressive hackers. As we’ve since learned, hackers love weekends, because it’s a time when targets may not realize the hack right away and the customer service at service providers is limited. But thanks to […]
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Here at Version One, we had two nightmarish weekends in early February when our accounts were hacked by pretty sophisticated and aggressive hackers. As we’ve since learned, hackers love weekends, because it’s a time when targets may not realize the hack right away and the customer service at service providers is limited. But thanks to very immediate help from Google, Twitter and other organizations, we were able to regain control of our accounts pretty quickly.
Through the process, we’ve learned quite a bit about safeguards to prevent these kinds of hacks from happening – and here are some key lessons that everybody should take to heart:
And the last piece of advice you should take away from this blog post: don’t just read it but reserve a few hours today or tomorrow to actually do these things. Believe us, it is a very good investment 🙂
P.S.: Funnily enough, we recently invested in a company that provides managed security for small- and medium-sized companies that cannot afford a full-time security expert on staff but want to get ahead of any potential attacks on their software / network. We will be able to share more about this company in the upcoming weeks and months but this attack has certainly confirmed our investment thesis.
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