How Safe is it to Keep Information on Twitter
Hey, Bruce Naylor here, your FrugalTech. You know, one of the questions I get asked a lot is “How secured is keeping your data in the clouds?”
Well, I think the reason news is going around about the Twitter hack kind of sums up my feelings about what is going on. And if you’re not familiar with the story here, it is basically about a month ago a Twitter employee by the name of Jason Goldman and he is a product manager at Twitter has his yahoo email account hacked and it’s not hard to do that. Normally, if you’re locked out they will ask to send you a new password to another email address. But if you don’t have another working email address, why then, you go to another page and ask your secret question and that’s what this person identifies himself as Hacker Croll death.
Now, once the hacker got the Yahoo account, the personal email account of Jason well, it will made short work of giving his Gmail, username and password. Once he did that he was into the Google apps that Twitter uses and he found things like employee’s salaries, credit card information, resumes, financial goals and projections of the company. He went so far as to email some of those documents to Tech Rouge. Now that’s a premier technology blog and he published a few of them.
This has caused a real big problem and make sure you wonder what’s going on. But you know, the real question a really big comes in is how secured or safe is your important data in the clouds?
You know first thing is you got to have strong password policy. That’s just a must. If you’re intending to keep your personal, your private, your organization, your company’s business documents and so forth and something like Google apps, you want to make sure that your passwords are strong as possible but you also want to have a thorough understanding of the host’s policies as well as far as reset policy or it was called password recovery policies.
You know, in Google’s case, if you do get an account lock out, you have to go to your Google Administrator in order to get a new password. Now here is my analysis on this, my take you if you will. This should really give pause to any individual or organization looking to host your data in the clouds.
Perhaps, keeping top security type documents locally and of course enforcing strong password protection on your host’s accounts. You know these services are relatively inexpensive. Some are even free. But the trade of between convenience and security may make it too high and a price to pay.
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