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ScaredyCat
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 21 Jul 2013    Post subject: Ubuntu forums hacked Reply with quote
The ubuntu forums have been hacked. Usernames / email addresses / passwords are in the wild.

If you've been daft enough to use the same username/email/password combo somewhere else change it.

https://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html

https://i.imgur.com/15u3X7V.png
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PostPosted: 14:42 - 21 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Now I'm trying to remember if I ever joined that forum.
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PostPosted: 16:41 - 21 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheers for the heads up.

Useless smelly hippies wrote:
The passwords are not stored in plain text

I didn't use a dictionary word, and I doubt that they have access to an NSA-stylee supercluster, so I'm going to yawn and get on with my life.
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PostPosted: 22:45 - 22 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:

I didn't use a dictionary word, and I doubt that they have access to an NSA-stylee supercluster, so I'm going to yawn and get on with my life.


https://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/ and https://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours/ make for interesting reading....
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 23 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 15:19 - 25 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Passwords are like bikes. If someone really, really wants it, there's little much you can do, unless murdering them and all those at follow is part of your plans.

The best defence you have is to use unique passwords for each site you use. Unfortunately people are lazy and use the same one for everything.

I do online banking and use Paypal, just like the next man. I have faith that they'll keep my shit secure. If there is a leak, then you just change your password to something else.
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PostPosted: 15:38 - 25 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
just don't use any sensical words in a password for a start.

The amount of people who have someones name as a password is just stupid

back on topic. never signed up to the forums
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chrisw
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PostPosted: 18:57 - 25 Jul 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shinigami wrote:
just don't use any sensical words in a password for a start.

The amount of people who have someones name as a password is just stupid


That's part good, part bad.

Dictionary words IN a password is perfectly fine.

Dictionary words AS a password is very bad.

When ever this sort of thing comes up, always refer to this XKCD image:

https://xkcd.com/936/

Pass-phrases are the future.
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