วันศุกร์ที่ 24 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2556
As
we know, there have been a lot of hacks happened to social media users
including Twitter. After a long series of embarrassing hacks, finally, Twitter
rolled out a new two-step login to help its users prevent unwanted interferences.
The two-step login is a verification system which will be optional for users to
fill a phone number registration field, e-mail account and six-digit code that
would have to be entered, via text message, each time they log in to the site.
Jim
O’Leary, Twitter’s security team, said in a blog post “Every day, there is a
growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come
from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from the people whose
accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of
password data elsewhere on the web.”
The
new idea comes in the wake of repeated hacks to reputable Twitter accounts in
recent months. Last month, The Associated Press’ Twitter account was
jeopardized by someone who falsely made a tweet if there had been a bombing at
the White House. This case was the latest in a laundry list of media organizations
hacked in recent months. Amid them, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Bloomberg News, Washington Post, “60 Minutes”, CBS, and “48 Hours”.
Another
soiled Twitter account case happened in 2011. Fox News saw its Twitter account was
compromised and used to send a fake message that President Obama had been
murdered. In February, Jeep and Burger King got a similar hack. And on the
beginning of 2013, Twitter itself was hacked, as the result, around 250,000
user names and e-mail addresses were exposed.
Most
cases of Twitter hacks happened to users whose accounts have easy-to-guess
password, been accessed via public Wi-Fi, or the users forgot to log out after
using their Twitter accounts. Accounts can also be accessed if a user loses her
or his phone while the Twitter account has not been logged out yet. Different
way used by hackers to their targeted high-profile victims. Hackers usually
send deceptive e-mails that encourage the victims to enter personal
information.
For
all the cases that ever happened to the Twitter users, Twitter’s security team,
O’Leary said that the security upgrade is not a cure-all. He stated, “ Of
course, even with this new security option turned on, it is still important for
you to use a strong password and follow the rest of Twitter advice to keep your
account secure.”
