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Your AI Intern Just Started. 
Who’s Supervising It? ... 1
Trust, Scarcity and Second 
Chances: Inside Molly Bloom’s 
Poker Empire ... 3
Your Password Is the Key Under 
the Doormat ... 4
Picture walking up to a house and lifting the 
welcome mat to find a key underneath. It’s 
convenient, predictable and exactly where 
someone with bad intentions would look 
first. Most businesses treat their passwords 
the same way.
No one starts a business thinking they’ll need to 
manage passwords for the entire organization. 
But at some point, it becomes part of the job, 
quietly growing as you add more tools, more 
logins and more people.
The Reuse Problem
A typical breach doesn’t usually start within 
your business. It starts somewhere else 
entirely: a shopping site, a food delivery app, a 
subscription you forgot you had. That company 
gets breached, and suddenly your email and 
password are part of a database being sold on 
the dark web.
From there, attackers get efficient. They take that 
same login and try it everywhere: your email, 
your banking portal, your business applications, 
your cloud storage. One breach, one reused 
password and it’s not just one door that’s open — 
it’s the whole building.
The most common attacks aren’t sophisticated; 
they’re automated. Software runs your stolen 
credentials against hundreds of sites while you’re 
asleep. By the time you find out, the damage is 
already done. It’s called credential stuffing and 
it works because most people reuse passwords 
across multiple accounts.
The Illusion of ‘Strong Enough’
A lot of business owners feel covered because 
their password has a capital letter, a number 
and a symbol. That might’ve felt secure in 
2006, but the landscape has changed since then. 
Modern attacks use tools that can test billions 
of combinations per second. 
A strong password is still a single point of failure. 
One phishing email or one vendor breach can 
undo it entirely. No matter how clever the 
password is, it’s still just one layer standing 
between an attacker and everything you’ve built.
The Fix: Simpler Than You Think
A password manager creates and stores a unique 
password for every account, so your team doesn’t 
have to remember them or fall back on reusing 
the same easy-to-guess password. 
Multi-factor authentication adds another layer, 
so even if a password gets exposed, access is still 
blocked. Neither needs an IT degree and both 
can be set up in an afternoon. 
Good security isn’t about perfect habits; it’s 
about systems that still work when people make 
honest mistakes. 
Don’t make it easier for hackers and leave the key 
under the mat.
YOUR PASSWORD IS THE 
KEY UNDER THE DOORMAT
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