Monday, December 13, 2010

Cyber Security: Gawker Site Attack - 1.6 million passwords revealed

PBS NewsHour did a good story this evening about cyber security from the end user perspective. Based on the gawker.com website being hacked this past weekend where over 1.6 million passwords werr displayed on the website. If you are interested in why passwords are important and how to make them secure please take a look at the PBS NewsHour story.

Do you use the same password for all your websites? It's time to change that methodology.

And, how the gawker hack led to a spam attack on twitter, from PC Magazine - Gawker Hack Leads to Twitter Spam Attack .