Are social networking sites really safe? Is your Account secured? Recently there has been a outbreak of people hacking into peoples twitter accounts, Approximately 250,000 accounts. Twitter has come out and said that noting that the company now is among the “recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies,” Twitter is already taking action and has sent out emails to the people who's twitter was hacked and they have required a reset of passwords before any hacked handle can be accessed again. When people think that it is not a really big deal all they have to do is reset there password and move on it dose not seem like a big deal, but it is. Its the fact someone else has been on your account and you have family, friends, and probably bosses the on occasions check your page out. Its the image it has on yourself.
As a owner and a member of social networking sites i do not think to have a hard password, Now I may be changing my mind in this case. My pastor (every day) gets on all of my pages on social networks to try to catch me doing something wrong, I would hate if someone posted something bad and he would think it was me because I would get in a lot of trouble. What really concerns me is that twitter should have some control over the where abbots these logins are coming from. I remember when I was in California and i logged onto Facebook and there was a warning thing and i have to reset my password and answer security questions just because they were moderating all accounts. In the article it said twitter handles about 0.125 percent of the 200 million active twitter accounts.
As a active member of twitter i have asked myself what are ways I can help protect myself and my accounts, they told us, and I quote " Twitter is taking this opportunity to remind the other 99.9 percent of its users to ensure that their passwords are strong, with “at least 10 (but more is better) characters and a mixture of upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols – that you are not using for any other accounts or sites.” This connects to me because I have a twitter account and most likely I am not that 0.125 percent that is watched over.
