The story about Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account being hacked is making headlines around the world, and bloggers are arguing back-and-forth about the rights and wrongs of breaking into her account.
What’s perhaps most relevant to all of us, however, is how did the hackers manage to breach security and gain access to what should have been a secure email account, and what can the ordinary man or woman in the street do to prevent it happening to them?
After all, if it can happen to Sarah Palin it could – if we’re not careful – potentially happen to you, me, or even celebrities like Paris Hilton…
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Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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