One of the best aspects of Twitter is the ability to share stories, pictures and videos with all our friends and followers. So, Tuesday's attack on Twitter was quite disconcerting.
Twitter's new features include the ability to see content just by rolling our mouses over the link. Hackers decided to use that to their advantage and create links that would attack Web users who even put their cursors too close to it.
Several notable accounts were retweeting malicious content without even realizing it — the White House and the ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" to name a few.
The problem started and was solved Tuesday morning, but this just serves as another reminder of the dangers of being apathetic online.
At this point, we're pretty much tied to our computers for everything we do in college. All our assignments, correspondence and research aredone with the computer.
How would you be affected if your computer crashed today? How many assignments would you have to start over? How much personal information could a motivated hacker get from you while ruining your credit along with your Fall Semester?
Take the responsibility to think about how you can protect yourself. Make sure your computer is safe from viruses and spyware. Students can get free antivirus software by going to bsu.edu/antivirus.
Back up your content. Use a portable hard drive or flash drive to save an extra copy of your schoolwork. Print out copies of work. It might be a pain to retype a lost document, but at least you won't be starting from scratch. Backup your backups while you're at it. Those flash drives can be rather flimsy.
Don't be caught unaware. If you hear about a potential virus, don't do anything foolish that could lead to it ending up on your computer. Tell a friend or two while you're at it. You'll earn some brownie points for saving a classmate.
We have too much going on already to worry about losing everything we've done this semester.
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