Compromised .com's & email accounts...treasure-trove for hackers?

What is the world turning into? Are we so greedy that we do not allow good ethics and morals to come to bare, but allow ourselves to be unrestrained like loose cannon? I know you are screaming the words, “Morals…? Ethics…? Say something else.”

You are right. In a world where there is a “good reason” to commit crime, ethics and morals are the last thing that comes to mind. It is literally trampled upon. We are now forced to ask the question, “What will they do with the money other than eating, drinking, sleeping, waking up and repeating the cycle the next day?”

Now, I do not think people have embraced the message yet on securing their email account with strong passwords that contains numeric characters (1,2,3), alphanumeric characters (mixture of number & alphabets) alphabetic characters (A, B, C) and symbols (@%*<#>). Maybe in 2030 there will be greater awareness, until then expect more and more hacking news. I am almost lost in thought of this…back to the point.

The latest news was given by Steve Ragon via http://securityweek.com on July 18^th, 2012, where he quoted Dancho of Webroot saying, “Recently, I came across a new Russian service offering access to compromised accounts across multiple social networks such as Vkontakte, Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and last but not least, compromised email accounts. What’s particularly interesting about this service is the fact that it’s exclusively targeting Russian and Ukrainian users.”

Oh-oh…wait a minute! “…last but not least…?” Meaning there are countless other networks that have been compromised but are not listed. Good Lord!

As if the email compromise is not enough, they now sell these compromised email data, for how much…? $2.00 = 50 email data and with $6.00 dollars I can have access to 500 Russian Facebook accounts or $7.00 for 500 twitter accounts.

Everyone not caught up in the song being sung daily on securing their accounts with STRONG PASSWORDS are in for a rough ride. Forget the fact that the Russians and Ukrainians are doing this against their very own. What makes you think it’s not happening already in your country? Think again.

Until I see you next week, remain safe. Bye.