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Just had a text from a work mate telling me to change all passwords if they are the same as my hotmail one ASAP. Apparetly there has been a set of documents leaked which contain all usernames and passwords for hotmail. Not sure what to make of it tbh, anyone else heard anything?
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doubt they store the password as cleartext in their DB, usualy it will be hashed
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this bloke is a pretty big geek, he's always talking about the side of PC's I know nothing about. You echo my initial reaction but then again other than OS based software I know nothing about a computer.
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I change my passwords for everything every other month anyway. Because I've been the victim of some serious ID theft and fraud, I got into the habit. Luckily I have a really good memory for things like this as I have no plan for passwords. I literally change them to use something that I can see, have seen or heard that day, something completely random and pick numbers off my lotto tickets at random to add to them. No-one would stand a chance of guessing any! The only one I don't change is the one for this forum as I don't see the point.
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Urban myth started by the actions of "Croll" against Twitter.
Nothing more than a social engineering exercise, which is why I refuse to refer to "Croll" with their self appointed name. ![]() |
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bbarstewards.mn **** em all
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Well someone might get into my facebook, maybe log in on here as me and on to bikersoracle as me.
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thats all I could find anything about when i googled it, so im happy not to wrry... for now lol
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I discounted this as normally companies only store a hash of the password using something similar to sha1 encryption.
So, imagine my surprise when I read: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stm |
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