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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: ‘I assume I’ve already been hacked’

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How does a New York Times reporter covering cybersecurity protect her own devices? “I go into this job every day assuming that I’ve already been hacked,” Sheera Frenkel said in a Q&A published Wednesday. Frenkel’s advice starts off very basic: Use a password manager and multifactor authentication on each device (here at the innovationIOWA tech desk, I use and love LastPass for all my devices). Oh, and shake up those passwords: “Don’t use an obvious password like your name, your kid’s name or your birthday, and don’t use the same password for everything,” she said.