information published by the agency Trustwave are further proof of how dangerous are botnets and lack of caution when installing different types of software. Hackers have made a further, large-scale theft of passwords to known sites.
using keylogging associated with botnet Pony stolen about two million passwords include for Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, LinkedIn. Besides hackers acquired data 320 thousand. e-mail accounts, 41 thousand. FTP accounts 3000 passwords to allow remote control of a computer.
Poland is a habitat botnets! The whole truth revealed to us by Microsoft.
Trustwave Agency, which detected the attack, said on the occasion that many people use very weak passwords – “123456″, “password”, “1234″, “123456789″. The use of such a simple security exposes us to a break-even without the use of a keylogger, which is a program that scans and sends everything that we write using the keyboard.
persons whose passwords were stolen should receive a notification. It is worth remembering, however, about to periodically change your password and do not use one to many sites.
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