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Time To change your email password
by Tom Costello www.nbcnews.com 5/5/16
Cybersecurity professionals warn that anyone with a
personal email account might want to change their passwords following revelations
of a massive cache of stolen user names and passwords being offered for sale on
the Internet.
The thefts involved some of the biggest email providers
in the world such as Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft. The bulk of the
stolen accounts—some 272.3 million—include Russia's Mail.ru users, according to
Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security
who discovered the theft.
"We know he's a young man in central Russia who
collected this information from multiple sources," Holden told NBC News.
"We don't know the way he did it or the reason why he did it."
The user names and passwords were being offered for sale
on the so-called "dark web" where hackers hock their goods.
"The data collection of consumers, the data
collection of federal government employees, it's very obvious that it's
targeted, that it's orchestrated, and that there is multiple groups in play here,"
said Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions, a cybercurity company and a
former White House Chief Information Officer. "
Hackers use stolen email information to lure users into
giving away more information including birthdates, credit card numbers and bank
account access.
In 2014, cyber criminals stole $16-billion from nearly 13
million consumers.
All the more reason, say experts, to regularly change
passwords regularly—even monthly.
"And more importantly, you should also be thinking
about one site, one password," said Lucy Millington, head of corporate
security for Sophos Cyber Security. "So don't reuse a password, don't use
the same password for the bank, as you do for retail shopping, as you do your
email."
So what's a good password?
Well, for starters, don't include the names of your
children, pets or home addresses—all information that could easily be found
online.
Instead, use abstract combinations of letters, numbers
and characters that a criminal's computer program couldn't easily guess.
Mixing languages is another way to throw off hacking
programs. Running together the lyrics of a song could also help strengthen
passwords.
Experts advise paying for credit monitoring to watch for
suspicious activity. ================================================================== Good Netiquette And A Green Internet To All! =====================================================================
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