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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

Hackers Steal Almost 250,000 Web Logins each Week: Google

November 4, 2017 by Donald Hoxhaj Leave a Comment

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Hackers Steal Almost 250,000 Web Logins each Week: Google

This article talks about the following: Google has discovered that there are millions of credentials of users that have been compromised through hacking and 3rd party breaches. The challenge that has been seen is that people continue to use their same old username and passwords across different platforms and fail to distinguish between personal and professional accounts.

It will be interesting to see how things unfold in the future. Is this a wakeup call for the people in the world to constantly change passwords for different platforms? Cyber-attacks and Web application threats have grown and how can consumers be trained to change username and passwords, especially in cash sensitive sites?

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