Social Media Users Beware: Two Million Accounts Compromised

January 29, 2014 David Willson Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

A recent CNN headline read, “2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack.” This attack began sometime in October 2013 and was discovered in late November 2013 by Trustwave, a cybersecurity company. How this occurred is still being investigated. What is known is that the users who were compromised had been infected with a keylogger virus. This virus enables hackers to collect every keystroke typed on the user’s computer, including passwords, account numbers, and anything else you enter.