Firesheep brought to light the security of social sites. It is shocking to find how easily accessible your information can be on the Internet.
Without the right security measures and protocols you can loose valuable information as well as be put in harms way if your hacker might have a dangerous motive for wanting to access your accounts.
There are four known ways to get hacked:
1. Lack of SSL Browsing
Without a secure SSL anyone can see what you are browsing at any time
2. Partial Sidejacking
In a partial sidejacking, some of your info is available to the attacker, but the person can’t completely breach your account.
3. Full Sidejacking
The attacker can get full control of your account but still cannot access your user name and password
4. Full Hijacking
Attacker gets full control of your account and can make any changes.
Unfortunately the world is becoming increasingly dangerous by the day and to survive one must continuously be aware of risks, because if you know the risk you know how to prevent it as well.
I hope that you found the article useful
Source: www.digitaltrends.com
