Social networks, email services, clouds or other tools: Journalists rely on many different services for their job – and these services may handle with a lot of information that journalists by definition have to protect. Their credentials for the accounts are then the most valuable thing journalists have to protect.
There are three basic measures that journalists have to take care of to relatively easy protect their accounts effectively:
- Use strong passwords that differ for every account.
- Enable Two-Factor-Authentication for every account.
- Inform and train regularly how to detect phishing attacks.
Phishing
Phishing means that adversaries try to get a user’s credentials, such as log-in information, without the user’s consent. This can, for example, be done by sending an email and asking for log-in information, or by making a user click on a malicious site that claims to be the intended service…
Two Factor Authentication
The term Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) means that you need a second credential to log-in to your account in addition to your password. This is powerful, because even if an adversary gets your password, it cannot automatically log in. Reporters Without Borders recommends everybody to use 2FA on all accounts that…
Passwords and password management
The most important things about passwords you need to know are: Every password should only be used for one service, and should be strong enough to survive a password cracking attempt. It is difficult to remember one or multiple strong passwords (see below). We highly recommend that you use a…
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