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Re: Possible security breach? [Suspicious Help!!! email]

Post by potato » July 26th, 2012, 4:34 pm

RobFromRedland wrote:To help prevent it, make sure you change your password to a STRONG password (not a real word, with upper/lower case and including numbers and special characters if you can).
Here is an alternate take on what makes a password strong. http://xkcd.com/936/

Edit: OK, and some dissenting views in the discussion :D http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73384
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Post by kepPNW » July 26th, 2012, 9:41 pm

theradpotato wrote:Here is an alternate take on what makes a password strong. http://xkcd.com/936/
Don't even need to click that one! I made all sorts of friends in one IT dept when FW'd that around awhile back. :D

(I'm in total agreement with it, but the problem is that most sites don't support that length, or have other silly PW requirements.)
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Post by retired jerry » July 26th, 2012, 9:45 pm

I've seen that before too. Good idea. You could choose 4 shorter words, including Caps, numbers, and other punctuation marks and still have the same idea.

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Post by Koda » July 26th, 2012, 10:28 pm

RobFromRedland wrote:I'm not sure what it is, but it seems like a disproportionately high number of "hacked" accounts are Yahoo email accounts......
I've used hotmail and now gmail for years and have never been hacked.... yet every single friend I have that uses yahoo mail has been hacked and has sent me a similar spam email at some point.


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Post by Waffle Stomper » July 27th, 2012, 4:54 am

Knock on wood, I've been lucky. I've found that some of these emails from "friends" have come form addresses hacked from facebook.
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Post by Lurch » July 27th, 2012, 7:04 am

well considering you use your email to log in to facebook, and most people use the same password for everything, getting one will usually get you the other

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Post by kepPNW » July 27th, 2012, 8:06 am

Lurch wrote:most people use the same password for everything
Bingo! You simply must use different passwords for accounts "that matter." Banking and Email (because it's used to validate almost everything else) need to be vault-like secure. Stuff like this forum, not said disparagingly, can be more like the latch on your backyard gate.
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