Monday, May 14, 2012

What is Blog Hijacking?

Blog Hijacking - Avoiding Blog Theft


Blog Hijacking is literally theft of your google account. There are different levels of theft, depending on if you have linked your blogger account to your gmail\google account. If you have then this is google account theft, if you have not, you are lucky. All things google are linked - gmail, blogger, analytics, adsense etc. The biggest cause of google account theft, is weak passwords. On the surface, this appears to be a blog hijack, but once you dig deeper, and try to access your gmail or other google service, you quickly learn how extensive the 'blog hijack' damage is.

Protection and Avoidance of Blog Hijacks

The many recommendations for the protection and avoidance of blog hijacks is to strengthen your google password. It is best to create a long password with numbers and mixed characters. The drawback to creating complex passwords is remembering them. Linked gmail and blogger accounts share the same password, so changing it once will save you time. Unlinked gmail and blogger accounts use different passwords. The choice is yours to link gmail and blogger. There are benefits and and annoyances in doing so.


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