The Hacks on Social Media
After
the recent attacks on both SnapSaved, a site the saves Snapchats, and drop box;
it is a priority for the owners of their companies to step up the security and
take all the measures that the can in order to prevent an event like this from
happening in the future.
Nearly
seven million account of Dropbox were breached by the hack with 100 of them
being published. The hackers are threatening to release all the information
stolen if they are not paid a bitcoin reward. The SnapSaved breach lost around
500mb of photos and videos that had been saved to the site. SnapSaved stated
that most of the users that were hack were Swedish, Norwegian, and American.
Though the hackers got into to the information
by guessing passwords, not hacking into the overall system, there should have
been preventive measures taken by the companies to insure that their client’s information
was secure. For instance, they should have should a security system that tracks IP address to check how many times a user has logged into their account from a
certain IP address. Along with the IP track, they should have used biometric measures
in order to understand how user use the site and to realize changes in
activity.
With the increasing amount of
social media in use today there was will be an equaling growing amount of
hackers trying to get into the information on social media. The only thing that
these social media can do to protect use is constantly increase the security
that they use for their sites.
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