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To start, Martin Waxman is gaming his Klout score by using Spin Sucks as his platform. He began with a Klout score of 68, used a guest post to encourage social shares and climbed to 70 before settling on 69.
Learn more about the experiment and what we learned in just a few days about the influence game.
But that’s not the main point of our podcast today.
The point of our discussion comes from a question from Liza Butcher.
She asks:
My Twitter account has been “compromised” three times in the last two weeks. I would love if you could do a show or part of a show on the best way to protect yourself and/or your organization from being hacked or, as Twitter calls it, “compromised.” Do you think this is something that is happening more and more?
As it relates to online privacy, I relate a story that happened with Spin Sucks where we were under attack for more than two weeks. Because we use LastPass to generate our passwords every few days, we lucked out and the worst that happened was the blog was slow. But if it had been two months ago, they would have gotten us for sure.
We discuss what online passwords mean to each of you personally, how to secure yourself, how to use good judgement, and which tools to use.
A special thanks to Liza and to David Jones for their comments.
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One more Twitter security tip:
Regularly check which third party applications have access to your Twitter account. If the service doesn’t require ongoing access (like Hootsuite, Klout, etc.) revoke its access. Third party access is a weak link in your social media security chain.
You can check which apps have access here: https://twitter.com/settings/applications.
Thanks for doing this episode. It really answered a lot of questions for me about online security and passwords. So no pets names in my password? = (
Just got LastPass and changed all my passwords. Seems like a great answer to my troubles.
Great addition, Mark. Thanks for sending it.
I found this week’s episode extremely timely considering the New York Times website was temporarily down due to Hacker Attacks on Tuesday (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/business/media/hacking-attack-is-suspected-on-times-web-site.html?hp&_r=0).
Would switching onto LastPass better protect domains like the Times?