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Hacked Computer
fandango:
Being a complete technophobe watching Neil doing his thing was a real eye opener!!
He removed so much junk from my pc freeing up space and removing harmful threats etc.. I can"t thank him enough, a true gent willing to help out as a pure favour considering we have never met or chatted before a really nice gesture.. I owe him a few beers if we ever meet at a APAT event..
www.notfrustratedanymore.com. :)
stone:
Sorry to reach this thread a little late, but I too had a hacking attack on 23rd Dec and I am almost out of the woods now.
Reason for posting is that I wanted to confirm that hacking problems arn"t just confined to the Windows world, I"m a Mac user and had my FB, hotmail, gmail and stars account done over. I had a tug of war with the hacking program / users which got particularly interesting after I changed all my verification details from another computer and they still got in.
Stars were very good, they were the ones who advised me of the hack. Even after the hacker had confirmed that everything was ok, they suspended the account and only after a thorough grilling over the phone as to my poker habits did they reinstate me.
AMRN:
--- Quote from: stone on January 03, 2012, 12:35:27 PM ---
....and only after a thorough grilling over the phone as to my poker habits did they reinstate me.
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Bet that was an interesting conversation.... "I play poker, I lose. I reload. I play poker, I lose. I reload...." ;) ;D
lukybugur:
--- Quote from: stone on January 03, 2012, 12:35:27 PM ---
Reason for posting is that I wanted to confirm that hacking problems aren"t just confined to the Windows world, I"m a Mac user and had my FB, hotmail, gmail and stars account done over.
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--- Quote from: lukybugur on January 01, 2012, 11:20:54 AM ---
I think many are getting a bit paranoid about their own setups here ...
Facebook is hacked REGULARLY and it remains one of the biggest targets for hackers. Some of you may remember reading news articles that personal pics of Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO) appeared in plain view due to a coding error within the Facebook structure just a couple of months back.
Despite your best practices regarding your passwords, if there are security "holes" on Facebook servers, getting passwords is the easy bit. In the recent past the CIA, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have all been subject to a number of attacks that have made the news so I wouldn"t get too hung up on your own PC problems. If Blue Chips companies with their $Billions / year IT infrastructures can get breached, imagine how easy it is for the same person / team of hackers to infiltrate your itty bitty PC and how much less profitable it is for them to target YOU alone.
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poker_jason:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on January 01, 2012, 14:33:57 PM ---
--- Quote from: lukybugur on January 01, 2012, 11:20:54 AM ---
Good passwords should be 8 characters long and contain uPPeR and LoWer case characters, at least one number and one symbol. Using a % * or ^ adds that little bit more to a password and should stop folk ever being able to "guess" it.
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I"m not an IT expert, but I read somewhere recently that most of us have been taught to choose passwords that are easy for a program to break but difficult for a human to remember, whereas we should be choosing ones that are easy to remember and difficult for a program to break. A program doesn"t care whether the digits are letters, numbers or symbols - they are all just another possible digit to be tried and an 8-digit password of any type an be cracked in a short time, whereas a 30-digit one would take squillions of years longer (or something like that). The article suggested that running a few easy-to-remember words together was way more effective, ie SOLENTPOKERCLUB is far superior to BCPC**00. I"ll leave to the experts to confirm or not.
In keeping with this thread, if anyone needs a mobile nail technician, etc.............
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This was in the recent copy of the BCS Mag ITNow - read the same article. Of course the key is your e-mail account as you often have any account reset sent there......along with all your emails that tells poeple where you shop, gamble, etc....
Also I"m a consultant Business Analyst / Project Manager
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