Thursday, June 7, 2012

Social networking warning

If you have an account at Linkedin.com, it's quite likely that your user-id and password have been compromised.  See http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/8-million-leaked-passwords-connected-to-linkedin/

If you have an account there, and you use the same password for accounts at other sites like Facebook or Google, then those accounts are at risk, too.  At a minimum, change your password(s).  If you are using the same password at different sites, stop doing that.  If you are using a pattern for your passwords, like "google.foo", "facebook.foo", etc., stop doing that, too.

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