Be smart about passwords or the hackers will get you

By John Agsalud

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 26, 2012

~~<p>LinkedIn.com's recent announcement that its user passwords had been hacked sent shivers through the World Wide Web community. Apparently, a "Russian" hacker had broken into LinkedIn's database and posted information related to passwords of 6.5 million users. Granted, the information in a LinkedIn account is fairly benign. This action, however, has far-reaching implications for all "netizens."</p>
<p>We won't go into the technical details of what happened, but the fact of the matter is that one of the largest websites in the world (market cap of more than $10 billion) was vulnerable to such a breach. What does that say for other, smaller websites?</p>
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LinkedIn.com's recent announcement that its user passwords had been hacked sent shivers through the World Wide Web community. Apparently, a "Russian" hacker had broken into LinkedIn's database and posted information related to passwords of 6.5 million users. Granted, the information in a LinkedIn account is fairly benign. This action, however, has far-reaching implications for all "netizens."

We won't go into the technical details of what happened, but the fact of the matter is that one of the largest websites in the world (market cap of more than $10 billion) was vulnerable to such a breach. What does that say for other, smaller websites? Login for more...