How did Hackers welcome 2014 ? They simply hacked their way in. On 1st Jan 2014, Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the social networking accounts viz. Facebook and Twitter, belonging to Skype.
Finding the the names of the top ranked organizations being mentioned in a hack, that too on the first day year is quite surprising. This is just a bleak reminder of the days to come.
Organizations, which rely on social networking sites as one of the mediums to interact with the outside world, need to be extra careful and need to continuously monitor their accounts, especially related to passwords used to protect their social networking accounts. One bad password or one off day may spell DOOM to your credibility and hackers may end up posting derogatory comments through your accounts.
After watching the Goliath fall down, we as end-users, are once again reminded of the fact that we need to monitor out accounts, regularly change passwords and keep stronger passwords. Also when multiple entities are responsible for handling the login credentials, we need to be doubly sure about the manner in which password is stored on the computer systems.
How did Hackers welcome 2014 ? They simply hacked their way in. On 1st Jan 2014, Syrian Electronic Army hacked into the social networking accounts viz. Facebook and Twitter, belonging to Skype.
Finding the the names of the top ranked organizations being mentioned in a hack, that too on the first day year is quite surprising. This is just a bleak reminder of the days to come.
