Establish policies that require regular updates of antivirus software, and require workers to use password protection systems.

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While it doesn't appear that member accounts were accessed, the attack displayed LinkedIn's tardiness in implementing the most advanced password-encryption systems.

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While considerably more secure than typical static username and password log-in systems, many people find using security tokens cumbersome given the need to keep it with them in order to use online banking.

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With the database table of passwords widely available, it should be noted that most of the passwords will be broken eventually however, and so every user who has used a Gawker Media web site should change their password once Gawker is sure their systems are clean of any shells left behind by the attackers.

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