Everyone should use the latest social media scare with Twitter as an opportunity to review their password management.
This means across all social media, websites, PCs and any other devices they use. Passwords should be treated like toothbrushes – not shared, and changed reasonably often.
Twitter’s detected breach resulted in them suggesting 250,000 users should change their passwords. Yet users who heed that advice may still find that apps they’ve given permission to access their Twitter account using the Twitter API, including the company's own, allow the service to be used without asking users to enter the new password. This is an example of technology working to make things easier for us, whilst inadvertently leaving a back door open to hackers through other services.
We must all be vigilant.
Nick Besant, Panoplia Security Services
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