Hack Prevention

A lot sites being hacked and now unguilty stardoll members, one of those sites being the one everyone loves, Now please let me say first Im no expert, but on this page, Im going to say what I think, that everyone can do to help prevent their sites from being hacked!!!

Everyone I have met on stardoll works so hard to get their page, club, etc. the way they want it, and to bring traffic, only for some jealous hacker to come along and destroy everything they worked so hard for. Don't let this happen to you. Try everything you can to prevent being hacked.

Now if I have understood people right the hacker, will take your email address that you post on your account, and they will try to get through to get your hotmail password. Ok, on hotmail there is what everyone does called a "secret question" When filling that out there are things like, what is your favorite teacher? We'll alot of people love to put the boyfriends/girlfriends name as password or sceret answer. Same goes as for if you put your favorite soup or animal.

When they get through your secret question this makes it where they get your password for hotmail, now all they have to do is go to stardoll, and say email me my password. And they just got your password to stardoll. Now here are just my ideas on how to prevent this.

One, make your secret question so hard, that even you have to write it down to remember it. If you favorite cartoon is Spongebob, put something like SpongebobLovesPatrick-20. Who would guess that?? My tipp, use longe words with numbers.

Two, this is what I have done, and so far no problems, some wants to give their new stardoll friends their email so they can add them to msn. Well this email is usually the same one everyone signed up for stardoll with. DON'T!! When you sign up for stardoll use a totally different email address than what you use for your stardoll visitors. The email you post on your site is the email the hacker is going to use to try to hack your stardoll account. Set up a totally different email address for your visitors than you would for stardoll or vise versa. 

Tips:

1. It´s is now a time where every single stardoll members have to be carefully. Do not trust anyone, because this is one of the ebst safety. So be extremely careful about who you accept. If they are overly flattering or nice be suspicious, If they tell you they saw a rumor about you on a blog..be suspicious and if you're thinking about joining a club that sounds to good to be true....BE VERY SUSPICIOUS.

2. Clear your cookies before visiting new sites or joining new clubs.

3.Most importantly change your password. It should be more than 13 characters, case sensitive, include both letters and numbers, include special characters like @,#,%,$ etc..!

4. Take sure your pass word is different on your email account. The hacker was able to change my email and confirm their own so that I was not able to get my account back until stardoll acted.

5.  If someone starts asking you personal questions, such as your Mom’s name, pet’s name, crush’s name, favorite color, ect, don’t tell them. Check everyone’s page before accepting a request, and most importantly, DON’T GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE!

Like I said above I am no expert, but so far these are the 2 steps I have taken to help prevent my site from being hacked. I hope it helps you as well. Keep those sites looking great, and dont let anyone take it over! Be safe everyone!
Smart Idea! Maryam-jan