In the age that we live in now, more and more information is being pumped into social networks; not just public but personal and private information. It is when this type of information reaches social networks that the issue of security becomes alive because people want their information to still remain secure. Social networks have setting that determine how much and what information becomes public however this bring little confront when viewing the larger picture of security issues related to social networks. Social networks are always trying to stay one step ahead of hackers that are after vital information from users. However, trying does not mean guarantee and thus there are times when information becomes exposed.
Hackers will always be after people's information but there are many ways people can protect their important information, specially across the various social networks they belong to by simple having distinct passwords for each account.
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| A single password for all is a no. |
Here are some more tips on how to keep your information secure.
This post talks in general about all the social networks. Most of the social networks not only deal with public data, they also have sensitive personal information. As recently as the year 2000, only one-quarter of all the world’s stored information was digital. The rest was preserved on paper, film, and other analog media. But because the amount of digital data expands so quickly (doubling around every three years) that situation was swiftly inverted. Today, less than two percent of all stored information is non-digital. As the volume of data increases there is a high possibility of leakage of sensitive data. The main way to prevent this is by having strong passwords. Passwords should be changed periodically. It is very important that all the social network accounts should not have same password.
ReplyDeleteSocial networking sites have enormous amount of data on their users. This data is great for the social networking businesses who can use them for profit and the hackers who, if they are possible to get access to the data, can use it for their profit. You brought up the first line of defense from the user's side, passwords. It isn't just enough for users to use different passwords for accounts but they also need to be chosen carefully. They can't be too difficult to remember because the user will end up writing them down. They can't be too simple because they can be easily cracked using a dictionary attack. Hopefully passwords are stored properly on the service end, they must be hashed and salted and maybe even peppered not stored as plaintext.
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