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| Thread ID: 103842 | 2009-10-08 03:06:00 | Stupid Users | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 818038 | 2009-10-08 03:06:00 | The Hotmail hack attack this week has laid bare the woeful password choices of web users, as reports emerged that up to 1 million web email accounts could have been compromised. The most common password was "123456", while many users had names or dates of birth - all easy pickings for the determined password cracker. www.stuff.co.nz ------------ I had one today. She had "spells" on her PC. To attract money to herself. She had the number plate Rich Witch. (in numberplate spelling) She also had zero protection at all and a keylogger. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 818039 | 2009-10-08 03:32:00 | Isn't the general rule for passwords to use upper case and lower letters and numbers for creating passwords? | convair (13650) | ||
| 818040 | 2009-10-08 03:37:00 | Isn't the general rule for passwords to use upper case and lower letters and numbers for creating passwords? some websites arnt case sensitive though |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 818041 | 2009-10-08 03:48:00 | As long as they are alphanumeric and long enough, without following a silly pattern, wouldn't be worried. I was playing with a win 98 password cracker for Win 98, and well... Dictionary attacks finished in seconds, brute force would take too long to finish anyway. |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 818042 | 2009-10-08 03:56:00 | At 6 alphanumeric characters it's 1.03144248 × 10^28 random combinations. How long would that take to crack? :D If it's case sensitive... 1.75945241 × 10^48 combinations... |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 818043 | 2009-10-08 05:08:00 | At 6 alphanumeric characters it's 1.03144248 × 10^28 random combinations. For the "mathmatically challenged", that's 10,314,424,800,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations. :eek: At least my password isn't a dictionary word. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 818044 | 2009-10-08 05:17:00 | www.lockdown.co.uk Some info about how long it would take to crack a password. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 818045 | 2009-10-08 05:24:00 | The Hotmail hack attack this week has laid bare the woeful password choices of web users, as reports emerged that up to 1 million web email accounts could have been compromised . The most common password was "123456", while many users had names or dates of birth - all easy pickings for the determined password cracker . . stuff . co . nz/technology/digital-living/2945078/Hotmail-hacks-easy-as-123456" target="_blank">www . stuff . co . nz ------------ I had one today . She had "spells" on her PC . To attract money to herself . She had the number plate Rich Witch . (in numberplate spelling) She also had zero protection at all and a keylogger . I think you will find it was a phishing attack . I does not matter what password you have if people respond to hoax emails and confirm their account details . |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 818046 | 2009-10-08 05:30:00 | Some researchers reckon it was keyloggers. I'm inclined to agree with them. There are stupid people out there, but that many? |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 818047 | 2009-10-08 05:51:00 | I think you will find it was a phishing attack . . I'll find what was phishing? I mean I had a stupid user not one with a hacked password . With a keylogger installed . And yes I checked all it's entries and files and they were all there . Lucky for her she didn't use internet banking . She's stupid because she had "spells" but no actual protection . My point is users are stupid . I tell peoepla ll the time about the various bad things that can happen on the net to them and I always get similar comments - Oh I don't have anything important/no money/don't care if people read/take stuff . Morons . |
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