Here are some principles to avoid being victims of hacking.
While images of naked celebrities have been hacked, the
hacker would have to accomplish his crime, exploited a loophole in the security
of the iCloud. As a reminder, iCloud is a service offered by Apple to instantly
share images and documents between your iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. For
now, the Apple brand has not given any official response to the problem, and we
can not be completely certain that this is the service that is at issue. But
when in doubt, Belgium-iPhone update on a few simple steps to protect your
sensitive data.
Choose a good
password
While it's tempting to take on all sites and all software,
password simple and easy to remember, remember that it's really not a good
idea. In 2013, the two most common words were the very basic password
"password" and "123456", which protects you in any pirate
attacks. Better to choose a solid, at least 8 or 10 characters, mixing upper
and lower case letters, numbers and various symbols, do not use it all the same
and change regularly.
Also avoid choosing the name of your son, your cat, the date
of your wedding anniversary or your place of birth - easy to find information,
and thus make weak passwords. This work seems tedious, but with mnemonics it
becomes quite easy to find strong passwords: take for example the initial title
of your favorite novel or movie, to which you add the number of letters it
contains, or else replace some letters with numbers (eg A by 4 or I by 1) to
more complex your password ...
Encrypt your data
Less easy but very effective, data encryption is a good
solution if you want to protect your data: it is a cryptographic method that
can make a document comprehensible to those who have knowledge of the key
encryption. Cryptographic software are available for many Cloud. Normally, the
Apple encrypts your data automatically when it is sent over the Internet,
stores them in an encrypted format on the server uses secure for authentication
filters - however, the mishap that happened to American celebrities suggests
that encryption is not enough, but it is confirmed that piracy was caused by a
fault iCloud Apple probably will take the necessary measures.
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Be careful what you
share on the Cloud
Unfortunately, that appears once on the Internet never goes
away entirely. So if there has images, documents or videos that you really do
not want made public, it is best not to put them on the web, even a few
minutes, if you do not want a hacker can find them. Beware also of the
automatic synchronization, proposed by many services iCloud: While this feature
is often very convenient, but many users activate it without realizing the
risks involved, and the data that you wanted keep confidential become easily
findable by hackers. If you are afraid, do share your documents and photos to
the cloud manually, case by case, to make sure that incriminating records are
not released without your consent.
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