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Dangers of having your data in the cloud.

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This article describes how a US journalist was cut off from his entire digital life by attackers who tricked Apple support into re-setting his iCloud account.

If does illustrate very clearly just how much we trust we place in the cloud provider irrespective of who they are, when we put any of our data into the cloud. There is a lot to be said for the ‘old’ fashioned method running your own systems and ensuring they are backed up securely.

LinkedIn password follow-up

Since my previous post  there have been additional reports of hacking into Last.fm and also Dating website e-Harmony (a US-based relationship site) has admitted that a "small fraction" of its users' passwords have been leaked.

Whilst the majority of our readers will not be so interested in the latter, there does seem to be a current spate of web site hacks around.

LinkedIn has said on its blog that it had reset the passwords of the affected users, who would receive an email with instructions on how to set new passwords.


What to do


Security experts have advised users to change their passwords on LinkedIn even if they were changed yesterday. Here's how:

 

  1. Visit www.linkedin.com, and log-in with your details
  2. Once logged-in, hover over your name in the top right-hand corner of the screen, and select 'Settings' from the menu
  3. You may be asked to log-in again at this point
  4. On the next screen, click the 'Account' button which is near the bottom of the page
  5. Under the 'Email & Password' heading, you will find a link to change your password

If you use the same password on other sites, be sure to change those too.

LinkedIn Users note!

I have been watching the unfolding news that details of LinkedIn users and their passwords have been leaked out into the wider web.  The most recent story is here.

I don't (currently) have a link to LinkedIn on my site although I do have an account, and have done for many years.  It seems sensible to at the very least to change your LinkedIn account password ASAP, and check that your information has not been changed, which as least one report I have seen has suggested.

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