Re: Jealous?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:17 pm
October was Cybersecurity Awareness month so I will tell a cautionary tale.
I used Instagram a little bit a few years ago. I mostly just posted pictures of okapi from the Dallas Zoo and random graffiti. A few months ago I came back to my account and found that my profile image was an image of a woman and that the account was following several hundred people and had a few more followers. I ended up changing the picture to a hampster and then eventually disabled the account.
The lesson is that your accounts can become bots. Use secure passwords. Don't reuse passwords. And disable unused accounts.
I used Instagram a little bit a few years ago. I mostly just posted pictures of okapi from the Dallas Zoo and random graffiti. A few months ago I came back to my account and found that my profile image was an image of a woman and that the account was following several hundred people and had a few more followers. I ended up changing the picture to a hampster and then eventually disabled the account.
The lesson is that your accounts can become bots. Use secure passwords. Don't reuse passwords. And disable unused accounts.