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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: paicrai on Tue, 19 August 2014, 03:34:43
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just a little FYI, they hacked over 400k sites
look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it
edit: (putting a post of mine in here in case you dont wanna scroll down)
this was news from the 6th btw, apparently the haxoring happened on the 4th
the passwords were sold for spam marketing and **** which is weird
captain Cane McCrotchety wanted source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/russian-hackers-stolen-credentials_n_5652812.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
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Oh noes
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that wasn't me, i swear. don't hate.
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don't care.... keep photos and receipts from the bank.. you'll be safe... at worst 2-3 weeks max to set your account straight..
so.. if you keep at least 2 bank accounts, it'd be highly unlikely that you'd become illiquid within any span of time.
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as long as you make sure to include numbers and symbols in your password, it'll at least take them a while to actually obtain a password, even if they've breached some sort of security measure
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my Facebook friends were forced to change their passwords week ago, don't know if there were any relate to this.
My password always have numbers, a symbol, and an upper letter.
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All my passwords are 'Password1234' so I should be fine
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Be poor like me with nothing worth stealing cept for Ergodox...
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All my passwords are 'Password1234' so I should be fine
*iri successfully logs in as baldgye
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this was news from the 6th btw, apparently the haxoring happened on the 4th
the passwords were sold for spam marketing and **** which is weird
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Just as a general password note: length > complexity (adding symbols / numbers). Length increases the time of a bruteforce exponentially. Complexity works well against dictionary-based cracking, but otherwise going for a longer password is better.
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This not news. Has been happening for years
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There's a good chance that Google already had all your information prior to some website getting "hacked" by some vodka enraged 17 year old russian kid in-between his LoL games and WoW botting.
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look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it
See, this is a bad idea.
If you're posting news, the least you can do is include at least one source.
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look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it
See, this is a bad idea.
If you're posting news, the least you can do is include at least one source.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/russian-hackers-stolen-credentials_n_5652812.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
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Just as a general password note: length > complexity (adding symbols / numbers). Length increases the time of a bruteforce exponentially. Complexity works well against dictionary-based cracking, but otherwise going for a longer password is better.
I always go for a lengthy (and easy to remember) passphrase with a short "complexity-meeting" addendum. This works for all solutions that don't have a stupid-short length requirement (c'mon guys 8 max was probably okay for your unix system in the 1970's but that's not gonna cut it today. Everyone who doesn't support at least 14 characters I recommend you stop using.)
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Sites that restrict special characters in passwords grind my gears. Multiple large banking websites still have these policies in place
Yay
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look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it
See, this is a bad idea.
If you're posting news, the least you can do is include at least one source.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/russian-hackers-stolen-credentials_n_5652812.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
This is western propaganda meant to discredit the glorious red empire.
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look it up, there are lots of news articles and interviews about it
See, this is a bad idea.
If you're posting news, the least you can do is include at least one source.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/05/russian-hackers-stolen-credentials_n_5652812.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/technology/russian-gang-said-to-amass-more-than-a-billion-stolen-internet-credentials.html?_r=0
This is western propaganda meant to discredit the glorious red empire.
vodka spoon