From the article: How to Avoid Being Hacked Like Twitter
Twitter was hacked from a security flaw that started with a single employee's Gmail account. How safe are you? Have you reused passwords? Is your secondary email account still active? Do you have security questions anyone could find in Google? Tell us what you've learned from Twittergate and how we can all avoid having our accounts hacked. Share Your Lesson
Gmail History
- The good thing in Gmail is that they have great tool for monitoring your account. The Last account activity where if you click in Details, you can see all necessary information on who accessed your Gmail account.
- —Guest cliper
@Operationstech's Post
- LOL... "If my parents, wife or kids know the answer, it's not secret enough." I love that comment. And you'd be right. sometimes my own passwords are so complicated I have to have them reset and make up a completely new one :D nothing less than 10 characters. Take that hacker wanabees :P
- —Guest skills
Almost Paranoid
- I have been going to job related computer security conferences and boot-camps for the last 12 years. I go there concerned and come away scared. :-) My passwords are long and complicated and my "secret question" is really secret. My rule of thumb is, "If my parents, wife or kids know the answer, it's not secret enough."
- —operationstech
Passwords Are a Pain Again. :-)
- After "Twittergate" I spent a ton of time changing passwords on all my accounts. I also got a password manager so that I could (hopefully) foil keystroke loggers. All they should see is "Ctrl-C" and "Ctrl-V" as I copy and paste the passwords in. Makes me want to go offline again and throw in the towel!
- —Guest Maos
