Webroot provide the following Internet safety tips for developing passwords that will keep their information secure:
Make your password unique –
For the first line of defense, choose passwords smartly. Apply pass phase numbers, letters and special characters (such as punctuation marks) to strengthen your password. Form a password using letters, numbers and figures in a memorable sentence.
one password per site –
Password which you have created, use it only for one Web site or one service. If you use the same password everywhere, you open up a gateway to the information stored on each of your password-protected sites if one of them is compromised. In addition, don’t write down passwords and store them for your own recall on a notepad or in a Word document, both of which leaves them vulnerable to prying eyes. For help, use a password management tool.
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Cyber criminals have raided the accounts of thousands of British internet bank customers in one of the most sophisticated attacks of its kind.
The fraudsters used a malicious computer programme that hides on home computers to steal confidential passwords and account details from at least 3,000 people.
The internet security experts M86, who uncovered the scam, estimate that at least £675,000 has been illegally transferred from the UK in the last month – and that the attacks are still continuing.
Out of action: The new trojan virus can empty bank accounts without their owners knowing about the theft as it shows them fake statements
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The government had come up with a new rule making the practice of “jail breaking” to be lawful. From now onwards, the Smartphone users and iPhone users can move a step closer in order to take full control of their devices.
The last week was featuring news surrounding the digital rights, but the headlines had come into the scene on the Monday morning. The FCC said that they had made the controversy surrounded practice of “Jail Breaking” in your iPhone or any other mobile phone to be legal.
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China’s leading search engine claims a shocking lack of security nous at its chosen domain name registrar was responsible for a prolonged outage last month.
China’s Baidu says in legal papers that that an obvious scammer was able to con Register.com support staff into handing over the keys to its kingdom, resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue.
Baidu, which commands 70 percent of the Chinese search market, was offline for at least four hours on the 12th of January. During the incident, its baidu.com home page instead showed the messaged “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army”.
In its lawsuit, the company claims a Register.com support rep allowed the hacker to reset the administrative email address for the domain to ‘antiwahabi2008@gmail.com’, despite the imposter providing obviously incorrect security codes during an online chat.
The hacker then allegedly used Register’s automated password reminder function to change Baidu’s account password, giving him access to the domain’s name servers. The whole rudimentary scam took less than 45 minutes, Baidu claims.
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