Monday, 12th January 2009, 14:41:00Think about password security, website owners told
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, suggested that linking log-in details to a specific internet protocol address or implementing a freezeout system for failed log-ins could help to prevent hack attacks such as those recently experienced by social networking website Twitter.
He referred to how automated dictionaries can be run by hackers to potentially work out someone's password and stated that a system where a user is prevented from logging in for 15 minutes after making several failed attempts would stop this.
"What we need to do is get any company that's running a website thinking about password security for their users, how to enforce good passwords and prevent people from running automated dictionaries," Mr Clulely remarked.
Approximately 41 per cent of internet users employ the same username and password on every website they are signed up to, according to the spokesman.
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