New form of hacker surfaces, Websites are being taken for ransom

Published on June 9, 2011 10:55 pm PT - By Jim Duran - Writer - Article Editor and Approved - Warren Miller

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(TheWeatherSpace.com) -- An Indonesian hacker was responsible for the downtime of TheWeatherSpace.com, and TWS is warning all on the Internet about this.

The Website, Social Network Passwords, and E-mail accounts were held ransom on Thursday. These accounts were accessed through a GMAIL account setup to control some of the activities. They have been switched from that account to secure server accounts.

No files were accessed on the Website control panel. The hack was done by changing GoDaddy.com nameserver destinations and GoDaddy has secured it so no Website information was taken.

The hacker left his e-mail address for TWS to contact. The hacker asked for $50 USD when the e-mail came back. TWS had no choice but to pay it, get the info back, and sort it with authorities thereafter.

TWS is warning everyone to have a secure password on your GMAIL accounts. GMAIL's e-mail server can easily be hacked if your passwords do not contain numbers, letters, and characters. A strong password does not have words or names of people.

TWS recommends the following site for random secure password generation and that you write it down somewhere to remember it.
Strong Password Generator

TWS urges everyone to get this article out to everyone immed. This is a serious concern and it is a new form ransom that could affect you or someone you know.

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