Security Experts On GitHub Accts Stolen In Phishing Attacks

By   ISBuzz Team
Writer , Information Security Buzz | Apr 20, 2020 05:32 am PST

In response to the news that GitHub users’ accounts are being stolen in an ongoing series of phishing attacks (link to GitHub alert: https://github.blog/2020-04-14-sawfish-phishing-campaign-targets-github-users/), Security experts offer perspective.

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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor , ESCALATE Mentor
April 20, 2020 1:39 pm

This attack can be easily thwarted by using a good password manager and not entering your credentials yourself. Take a look at BitWarden, a full featured open source password manager that will help you keep a unique password for each site you have an account with, as well as not automatically entering your credentials on doppelganger sites.

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