Review on a post on internet security

First of all, I would like to share news in China:
“22 year-old hacker from Hunan steals over 7million RMB from banks”
There is a 22 year-old unemployed man with only a junior high-school education being a hacker and steal money from banks. He purchased a hacking software which used to infiltrate the main computers and websites of Chinese banks to insert “Trojan horse”, and steal the identification numbers, bank account numbers, bank codes, mobile phone numbers and other personal information of banking customers. Thus, he successfully steal over 7 million RMB from the over 300 accounts!

From this news, it means that, nowadays, it is easy to be a hacker, and even easier being hacked! In this e-century, hackers are everywhere. They can hack into your MSN, yahoo, hotmail or others personal websites. That is why we have to learn how to avoid from being hacked! I always receive message from my friends’ msn messenger, sent me some website address link while the sender is appear offline! I feel weird and just ignore it. But, this is actually the hackers who try to send out virus after hacked the user’s msn account. However, after my friend change the password, these things did not happen again.

After reading the password security post in E-Commerce blog, I finally understand why a lot of people being hacked by hacker. They did not care about the security of password. Some people use their name, date of birth as the password that could be easily found out by everyone. Although it may be easier to remember the password, we should change the password every month to avoid hacker. Besides, avoid using the same password for every applications or account login.

I would like to share some ways to create a secure password and STOP being hacked to protect your private personal information. 1. Avoid using personal information: never use your name, spouse name, or date of birth as your password.
2. Do not use real words: try to create your own words that could not find in dictionary.
3. Mix different character types: create a password which include different type of character such as ‘#’ or ‘&’.
4. Use a pass phrase: think a sentence or line from song, and create a password using the first letter from each word.
For example: “I like to wear Nike shoes” we can change it to:‘il2wns’
5. Use password management tools: password management tools can remember password securely and easier for user.

The post I review:
1.http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Internet%20Security
2.http://chinanewswrap.com/2009/06/24/22-year-old-hacker-from-hunan-steals-over-7-million-rmb-from-banks/