Why Internet Visitor’s Account Vulnerable to Hack?

Some sites owned by companies in the U.S. blogging network, Gawker, had just called on patrons to renew the password. The reason, visitors Gawker is becoming the target of hacker attacks.

After through research that does not require a long time, the Gawker, as quoted by the Telegraph, on Thursday (15/12/2010), said that if even though Internet users are considered as technology-literate people, but they were just too careless in maintaining the confidentiality of your account password itself.

This finding emerged after Gawker analyze approximately 200 thousand passwords that are alleged to have stolen. Results of research in collaboration with the security firm Sophos, revealed that most Internet users choose easily guessed passwords. Typically they select '123456 'and the word' password 'itself.

In addition, Sophos also found that if in addition to an easily guessed passwords, Internet users also use the same password for every site you visit.

"Once the password is guessed, and the data were taken by force by the hackers, then thousands of users Gawker, either visitor technology blog Gizmodo and video game blog Kotaku, will find their Twitter account hijacked, just because the use the same password," said researchers from Sophos, Graham Cluley.

According to him, approximately one third of Internet users use the same password for every website visited. This is unfortunate Cluley. Therefore, he recommends that Internet users pay more attention to privacy password used by using different patterns for each website.

Cluley then encourage internet users to use password management software usage, like 1Password or LastPass to track the history of the user at login.

As with Gawker, social gaming sites RockYou and Hotmail email service stating if most passwords are used by users is '123456 'and the' ILOVEYOU '.