Attack on Israel : How to stay protected

Hello everyone,

As we all know, April 7th 2013 was marked as a day of digital terrorism in the cyber space. The day was marked by the famous Hacktivists group Anonymous and the target was the Israeli cyber space including: banks, government, social media, service providers, academy and more.

We as civilians of Israel are mostly worried about our personal information resides in our banks, social media servers and Mail service providers. Any information captured by those Hacktivists will probably be published and distributed immediately in the world wide web, never to be returned. Also a risk of malicious usage in this information should be taken into account.

In order to keep you on the safe side I would like to share the following list for you to follow.

I promise that if you follow those instructions, the chance for you being a victim in this attack will decrease eve to 0%.

List of Do's and Don'ts:
1. First of all, change your main passwords: Facebook, Mail, Paypal, banks, Ebay etc. But how?
- Your password should contain at least 10 characters.
- Your password should contain Upper case letters (A,B,C) with Lower case letters (a,b,c), numbers and special characters (#,$,&,@).
- Your password should not contain:
First name
Last name
Middle name
Date of birth
Family members or spouses.
Any other famous dates
Known passwords (12345, 1q2w3e etc.)

- Do not use the same password in 2 different sites.

- Keep track of your Credit Card transactions.

- Go to Google: search for your name and other private information and try to remove any information you find irrelevant such as account one online stores, registration you made to newsletters and more.

- Avoid opening E-mail you're not sure of their integrity.

- Avoid logging into accounts from computers other than your personal one.

- Avoid download new updates for the upcoming week.

- Avoid clicking on links in Facebook or any other sites that provide a "check" to see if you're protected.

If you have any other questions, don't hesitate and simply leave a comment.

May the force be with you,

Ido Naor