Twitter has been attacked by
a group of internet monsters recently and they vanished away with 2.5 lakhs of passwords
and other user details. A report says that the attack was fully planned.
Twitter confirmed the attack
and informed their users to change their passwords. Latest threats on the web
are arising day by day. Any kind of web traffic that is completely new to a
website is going to be a real headache for the webmasters.
The company says that it is
not an isolated issue. Problems are not created by the amateurs. New York Times
and Wall Street magazine are also victimized for the same attack. They have
been telling that the attack source is from China. But twitter is not yet
confirmed their attack source.
These attacks alerted all of
the internet masters and everybody is now speaking about the 3 dimensional
passwords. Twitter informed their users to use 3 Dimensional passwords which
are having at least 10 characters in length. A 3 Dimensional password is a
combination of character, digit, and a special character. Using the same
passwords for more than one account is not so secure.
Anyhow the companies are now
researching over the attack caused and are now going for a permanent solution.