A good number (read: thousands) of passwords have been stolen from - TopicsExpress



          

A good number (read: thousands) of passwords have been stolen from accounts on the following sites: Facebook, GMail, Google+, YouTube, Yahoo, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ADP. Might be prudent to change passwords on these sites, especially if you feel there is sensitive information about your person that can be mined from them (i.e., identity and financial information). The hackers set up the keylogging software to rout information through a proxy server, so its impossible to track down which computers are infected. Among the compromised data are 41,000 credentials used to connect to File Transfer Protocol (FTP, the standard network used when transferring big files) and 6,000 remote log-ins. The hacking campaign started secretly collecting passwords on Oct. 21, and it might be ongoing: Although Trustwave discovered the Netherlands proxy server, Miller said there are several other similar servers they havent yet tracked down. Prudent clicking, please. On a sidenote, LinkedIn is not at all secure.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 01:11:26 +0000

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