Do you have many account on the net? Do you use the same username and password in many account?if yes, then you need to change your password for safety. One of the reason that many blog and social media hijacked because of the same reason.
You can not be to careful in protecting your privacy and especially your business. May be some of you have heard that there are massive attack on google mail in February 2011. Here is a quote from Google Enginerring Director of security team.
It seem that the hijacker study the behavior of the victim and led their victim into giving their account and user name and password to some of the hijacker phising site. Most of the hijacker is using their personal computer to do their phising ativities.
Here are 4 tips on how to prevent yourself from phished.
Start changing your user name and password,clear your browser cookies and save new password. It is better if you use random password and store it in somewhere safe in your pc. It is time to change our behavior and awareness on spear phising.
You can not be to careful in protecting your privacy and especially your business. May be some of you have heard that there are massive attack on google mail in February 2011. Here is a quote from Google Enginerring Director of security team.
This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan in China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior US government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries - predominantly South Korea - military personnel and journalists." wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's security team, on the company blog"
It seem that the hijacker study the behavior of the victim and led their victim into giving their account and user name and password to some of the hijacker phising site. Most of the hijacker is using their personal computer to do their phising ativities.
Here are 4 tips on how to prevent yourself from phished.
- Do not click any link send to you on your mail. It is better if you copy the link first and search it on search engine about the link. Is it a phishing site or not.
- Do not download any image from the link it can be malicious malware and you get many spam.
- Do not rush in clicking links even though the link is from the source that you know.
- If you have google account,you should use two step verification, it will prevent hijacker to log in to your site even though they have your username and password.
Start changing your user name and password,clear your browser cookies and save new password. It is better if you use random password and store it in somewhere safe in your pc. It is time to change our behavior and awareness on spear phising.
