Saturday, February 7, 2009

Hacking

Well, today my cousins accounts on EVERYTHING got hacked today. This is a result to having the same password, same username, same everything for well, everything. The hackers apparently just locked her out by changing all of her information and she's now unable to get it back. I'm very thankful that I have such an amazingly smart father who tells me how to avoid this kind of crap and teaches me ways that make this kind of stuff easier to mitigate. So, for all of you out there reading this, make sure you're able to cycle your user names/screen names, have about three different passwords you can use (or be able to use three variations of the same one), and have a good virus protections software. 

1 comment:

Lorita said...

OH, I know what you mean. The same situation occured to my aunt a few weeks ago and now she's spending time figuring all her accounts.