Mckay Wrigley urges people to educate family and friends on cybersecurity
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Mckay Wrigley says people have a moral responsibility to teach family and friends about the current state of cyber threats, which he expects to get worse.
In an X post he shares a starter to-do list. He quotes a post by Peter Wildeford that recommends a password manager such as 1Password with no reused passwords, two-factor authentication through an app or YubiKey instead of SMS, automatic updates with weekly restarts, a credit freeze, an IRS Identity Protection PIN, and a carrier port-out PIN.
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