{"id":4705,"date":"2012-06-15T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/social-media-poses-serious-security-threats\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T20:52:00","slug":"social-media-poses-serious-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/social-media-poses-serious-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Poses Serious Security Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, social feeds and web articles flooded the<br \/>\nInternet with notification of a major password hacking from the professional<br \/>\nnetwork, Linkedin.<br \/>\nIt was reported that a Russian hacker breached over 6.46 million accounts. The<br \/>\ncompany released an apology and is still working on repairing the damage. Just<br \/>\nwhen things were starting to settle down, reports stated that the very same hacker had<br \/>\naccessed more than 1.5 million accounts on dating site, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/06\/07\/eharmony-password-hacking\/\">eHarmony.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nAlthough this was significantly less, the concerns were just as high, if not<br \/>\nworse. How could this be happening all over the web? Social media poses a huge<br \/>\nthreat beyond just the over abundance of personal information people share of<br \/>\nthese sites. Eric Knapp, VP of Client Services, says, All social media accounts<br \/>\nrequire an email. Once a hacker has an email address and a password its easy<br \/>\nenough to continue hacking other accounts.<span><br \/>\n<\/span>Users also make themselves vulnerable to multiple attacks by using the<br \/>\nsame passwords for every account. Unfortunately, this finding was not dispersed<br \/>\nsoon enough and this is not the end of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, 10,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/06\/12\/lulzsec-reborn-twitter\/\">Twitter accounts<\/a><br \/>\nwere reported as being hacked via Twitter-app. This breach made profiles, full<br \/>\nnames, passwords, and locations all public information after a group of hackers got into the system. All the sites that have been hacked this month have issued<br \/>\npublic statements and urged their users to change their passwords. This has<br \/>\nbecome a pretty standard procedure and has proven not to protect their users.<br \/>\nIf these accounts were hacked before, what difference does a new password make<br \/>\nfor the next time?<\/p>\n<p>Social media sites and other sites that require users to form<br \/>\nan account need to look deeper into preventing Internet fraud by enforcing<br \/>\nbetter security measures. A password should be the bare minimum, not the<br \/>\nsolution. Integrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/identity-verification\">identity verification<\/a> could help prevent the amount of online hacking. This would<br \/>\nrequire further criteria other than an email and password in order to access<br \/>\naccount information. The more common password hacking becomes, the easier it<br \/>\nwill become and harder to prevent.<span> <\/span>Sites<br \/>\nthat want to stay ahead of the security curve need to consider building a wall<br \/>\nbetween entering login information and accessing the account by investing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\">outside security measures<\/a>. This will help prevent future hackings and unsatisfied<br \/>\nusers. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>[Contributed by, EVS Marketing]<\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, social feeds and web articles flooded the Internet with notification of a major password hacking from the professional network, Linkedin. It was reported that a Russian hacker breached over 6.46 million accounts. 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