Major hacker arrested in England
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Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into US government computers and causing over a billion dollars of damage, has been arrested in England. Apparently he believed that the US was hiding evidence of UFOs and wanted to break into the computers to discover the proof. He also went a bit further and deleted several important files on the computers he hacked.
As the article notes, many of these computers were broken into because of failure to update windows and/or the using of easy to guess passwords. So, keep your Windows updated and try to use strong passwords of approximately eight characters in length with non-letter characters in order to keep your information and computer secure.
Gary McKinnon, accused of breaking into US government computers and causing over a billion dollars of damage, has been arrested in England. Apparently he believed that the US was hiding evidence of UFOs and wanted to break into the computers to discover the proof. He also went a bit further and deleted several important files on the computers he hacked.
As the article notes, many of these computers were broken into because of failure to update windows and/or the using of easy to guess passwords. So, keep your Windows updated and try to use strong passwords of approximately eight characters in length with non-letter characters in order to keep your information and computer secure.
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