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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by pilom on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @11:44AM (#11480550)
Just confirmed with our CTO. He was able to turn MFA off on our root AWS account over the phone.
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by mr_luc on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @12:32PM (#11481011)
Huh. I'm going to say thanks to HN, and this comment chain, for bringing this to light. That seems kind of insane.
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by brazzledazzle on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @03:51PM (#11482967)
Maybe it's time for Amazon to decouple AWS accounts from Amazon shopping accounts.
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by arviewer on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:49AM (#11494958)
I think you can do that yourself, although it probably means that you need two credit cards.
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by brazzledazzle on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:07PM (#11497837)
I mean from a system level perspective. The trouble is that they have policies that are optimized for people shopping on a site with a money back guarantee not for hosting critical infrastructure.
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