Written: June 21, 2010

Online Security and Getting Hacked

In the past three weeks I’ve seen three friends get their online accounts taken over, also called being hacked:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Yahoo

The intention of the hackers is typically one of the following:

• Impersonate you
• Direct traffic to their site
• Scam your friends for money

How can you protect yourself from being hacked?
Mostly it is a matter of choosing a password that is hard to guess. Security experts suggest the following password guidelines:

• Use a mixture of letters, numbers and special characters (if allowed)
• For letters use both UPPER case and lower case
• At least 6 characters, the more characters the more safety you will have

 It’s a real hassle to get your identity back after an online account has been hacked.

Tags: security

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