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This topic contains 7 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by  Coniglio Bianco 11 months, 2 weeks ago.

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  • 5/27/2012 at 12:49 am #24241

    Coniglio Bianco
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    5/27/2012 at 2:38 am #24243

    Coniglio Bianco
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    6/2/2012 at 12:19 am #24697

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    6/2/2012 at 1:04 am #24699

    beefcake
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    THis is a very good point.

    This site can also help:

    http://howsecureismypassword.net/

    You can make passwords that would take over a trillion years to crack.

    6/2/2012 at 1:19 am #24700

    steadiness
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    Yeah, that’s basically just mathturbation. No one brute-forces passwords anymore. They attack your passwords by stealing them and hoping you reuse them on multiple websites with a similar login.

    So just change your logins, don’t leave personally identifying details, and use different passwords. Simple, direct, obvious, no opportunity to show off your math skills by asking a calculator to multiply numbers. You don’t need 438ydifg.pdark43/ as your password to be secure.

    6/2/2012 at 1:14 pm #24749

    beefcake
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    I will certainly take the advice to make sure to have firewall up and a good virus protection.

    As well as take Steadyness advice use different logins and passwords, I am still going to have complex long passwords too.

    Just because less are using brute force and are also using new methods, I still think its good to protect against the old ones too.

    I know of one of the folks who got hacked by brute force, and had only numerical passcodes, that quickly were found.

    • This reply was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by  beefcake.
    6/2/2012 at 11:57 pm #24785

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    6/3/2012 at 9:34 am #24794

    Linux Lewis
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    @steadiness BruteForce Dictionary attacks are still in use. I would say that 98% of passwords can be bruteforced just by creating a dictionary of keywords from a target’s facebook page.

    Pet names
    Band names & song names
    Family members
    Sports teams & players
    zip codes/birthdates/cities/street names
    any combination of the above

    It is hard to come up with a password that doesn’t include any of the above; you can change the capitalization or use leetspeak to make a better password ie stR33Tn4M3

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