The indictment on charges of two agents from the FSB security service Federal Russia and two hackers who allegedly worked hand in handwith them to 500 million Yahoo user accounts.
Russian hackers did not have to work very hard to get into e-mail accounts of people, even those belonging to powerful executives or Government officials. Here is a look at some simple ways to protect youraccount from hackers. Do not reuse PASSWORDSMany theft online are when people have reused a password, they say, e-mail addresses,social and financial accounts. If you are engaged in any of the services, the others are suddenly vulnerable. A simple way to avoid this problem is to start with a base password that you can remember and then add you letters and numbers that refer to where what you're wearing. If your password database 'greatsurfer2017' (which is not particularly secure; more on this in a moment), you could do 'greatsurfer2017Y' your password from Yahoo and 'greatsurfer2017G' your Google password. If you no can be disturbed most, this is a basic level of security that can help protect you from the most obvious threats. But it isonly a baby step. Choose stronger passwords can make things moredifficult for attackers by making your password stronger base. Morecomplicated and long is a password, will be more difficult for hackers to guess. The bad: passwords are also more difficult to remember. There are some ways around that. They do not include names of your children, birthday, or references to other personal data. Hackers routinely troll Facebook and Twitter for clues to passwords like these. Obvious and default passwords as 'Password123' are also bad, as words commonly found in dictionaries, as these are used in the Pirates of programs you have to automate conjectures. You can make your own passwords with random nonsense uppercase words interspersed withnumbers and characters, as, say, ' giLLy31! florp.' (Do not use that you one now that he has appeared in this story.) While you are doing that even the words to yourself, they are difficult for hackers to break- and are easy to remember as you might think, although you can put into practice a couple of times. THEY MANAGED THEIR PASSWORDS FOR YOU
Of course, you can make things easier yourself using a service such as LastPass or DashLane password manager, which keep track of multiple complex passwords for you.
Some web browsers such as Google Chrome and Apple Safari also have passwords administrators incorporated; These work if you changedevices, but not is if you change browsers. After you create a password for the password manager, you can create random passwords foryour other accounts - and remember them for you as well. "it is saferand makes your life easier," said Jamie Winterton, director of strategyof the global initiative of the authorities of Arizona State safety University.THE YAHOO MEGAHACK U.S. may already be in a better position to know if hackers Russians and Russian spies swayed the presidential election last year. A plan discovered during a federal investigationinto a huge Yahoo security violation may have opened a window to other hacks potentially instigated by foreign Governments, according to computer security experts. That includes an investigation of FBI separate if the Russian Government hired hackers to interfere in the November elections that put President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.'This makes you more optimistic coming to the bottom of what happened,' said Robert Cattanach, a former Prosecutor in the Departmentof Justice is now in private practice. In the case of Yahoo made publicon Wednesday, the Department of Justice alleged that two Russian intelligence agents hired a couple of hackers for a robbery that affected at least a half million user accounts.
In a scheme that prosecutors say intelligence mixed with financial greed, old-fashioned, four men against Russian e-mail accounts and officials of the Government of the United States, Russian journalists andemployees in financial services and other private companies, officialsfrom the United States, said. In some cases a technique known as "spear phishing" Yahoo dupe users into thinking that they were receiving legitimate emails, hackers broke into at least 500 million accounts in search of personal information and financial data such as gift cardsand credit card numbers, prosecutors said.
MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION IS ESSENTIAL
The next line of Defense is two or multiple-factor authentication, which asks users to enter a second form of identification, such as a codetexted to your phone, when they log.
It is now commonplace for many email and social networking accounts. Even if hackers manage to obtain their password is needed your phone and texted code.
Would ' otherwise that has to say ' well, is that really you?', and giveveto authority is really important,' Winterton said.
KEYWORDS MATTER
According to the indictment, Russian hackers searches of e-mail accounts for keywords such as 'password' to find the passwords of people for other accounts.
Also searched for 'card' "visa,' among other terms.
So think twice before using common keywords that can serve as a roadmap to sensitive information to hackers.
And do not save passwords in old emails.
'There is not one thing out there that can keep perfectly safe,' said Winterton.
"But there are a lot of different things that can keep almost perfectlysafe."
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