noozguru, just the other day I read a yahoo news story that fake tax returns are the big thing with identity thieves. I think even Eric Holder was the victim of such. Made me feel less stupid about my own identity theft a couple of years ago. Now the IRS simply assigns me an extra ID number to put on my return.
On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:50 PM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: Actually most passwords go over the Internet as complex checksums not the password itself. I'm not for capital punishment but I think if we had vigilante squads knock off a few hackers then there would be less identity theft except that much of it nowadays is done by organized crime particularly out of Russia. On 04/12/2014 09:57 AM, Share Long wrote: >noozguru, I think I've gotten better with passwords though it's taken me a >while. My early passwords could probably be hacked by a kid in grade school! >And if the movies and novels can be believed, they haf vays of making the >password reveal itself! > >On Saturday, April 12, 2014 11:10 AM, Bhairitu <[email protected]> wrote: > > >That's why I kidded Willy the other day about updating OpenSSL on his server. >However it's hard to say if the exploit has ever even been used since as I >understand it can only return 64k of data and the hacker would be lucky if it >returned anything useful. > >Always good to change passwords but at some point that might not even work. > >On 04/12/2014 07:31 AM, Share Long wrote: > > >>Probably some of you already know about the Heartbleed Bug but just in case >>you don't: >>The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now >> >> >> >> >> The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Ch... >>Heartbleed: A look at which companies have issued a security patch to fix the >>Heartbleed bug. >> >>View on mashable.com Preview by Yahoo >> >> > > >
