As digital horror stories go, Mat Honan’s is a doozy. The Wired reporter had his iCloud account hacked and had his digital life wiped from cyberspace. Honan’s attackers used a combination of tech savvy and social engineering. They used his public LinkedIn page to obtain his Gmail address. Then they used Gmail to display his account recovery page. That’s when they hit gold. The recovery page contains an email address — albeit studded with asterisks — where account access information is sent when you lose or forget your password.
Some social media networks and e-mail servers have options to use SSL or TSL encryption whenever viewing the sites. This can help guard against hackers and spy-ware. These options have to be manually selected on each site (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, etc.). Here's instructions on how to protect yourself:
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How to Keep Hackers Off of Your Cloud
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. August 8, 2012 08:45 AMAs digital horror stories go, Mat Honan’s is a doozy. The Wired reporter had his iCloud account hacked and had his digital life wiped from cyberspace. Honan’s attackers used a combination of tech savvy and social engineering. They used his public LinkedIn page to obtain his Gmail address. Then they used Gmail to display his account recovery page. That’s when they hit gold. The recovery page contains an email address — albeit studded with asterisks — where account access information is sent when you lose or forget your password.
http://www.cyberstreams.com/posts/2012/august/how-to-make-e-mail,-web-browsing,-facebook,-twitter,-and-linkedin-more-secure