Facebook/Twitter/Linkedin Passwords stolen!

December 7, 2013 · Browser Security, Business Security, Email Security, Home Security, Uncategorised

Hello everyone!,

Recently in the news there has been reports that hackers used a keylogger to capture logins of approximately 2Million user accounts belonging to Twitter/Facebook/Linkedin users of those services are strongly urged to change their passwords to prevent any future login attempts

researches from trustwave have stated that the data breach has been going on for about a month but only recently published the findings

See CNN’s post http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

As I have posted about the importance of password safety and best practices as a best practice it is recommended to change your password every 30 days at least and use an 8 character password with upper and lower case letters a number and a special character

in my opinion since these passwords were stolen via a keylogger this is not a website hack but more of a user end hack and what is more concerning is that keyloggers capture keystrokes as such they are captured before being encrypted, so the hacker may have access to unencrypted user information

to protect against threats such as keyloggers make sure you have an update to date antivirus/firewall

I will keep this updated if more information comes in

until next time

Stay secure !