Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The mail server at work will send you an email advising that your password has been changed and that you need to confirm this change. What if I find out that you haven't updated your password? When and why did the password change? Malware on which systems may have been used by an attacker to successfully change the password.
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