Take-away: do not use the same email/user name and password on multiple sites. do not use the same email for your bank login as anything else. do not use guessable sequences. Y%457abe on yahoo and G%457abe on gmail even though you use several emails, they are associated with you and could be aggregated, in the case one is found and decoded.
There needs to be better encryption requirements generally, but just griping about what others do or don't do is not going to keep us any safer. Wolf Halton -- http://wolfhalton.info Apache developer: [email protected] On Nov 19, 2013 10:43 AM, "Stephen R. Blevins" <[email protected]> wrote: > When I was a military officer I observed that if I made a bad decision, I > wasn't the one who had to do the work to correct, but my subordinates. It > inspired me to do a better job of being accurate with my decision-making, > but I still wasn't perfect. > > The customer and taxpayer pay for everything in society. > > Stephen R. Blevins > [email protected] > > On 11/19/2013 10:16 AM, Ron Frazier (TECHC) wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This news is a bit old but I wanted to share it anyway. >> >> Adobe recently lost 150 million customer records. If you've EVER set up >> an account on their website, downloaded anything like Adobe Digital >> Editions or other software, or EVER bought anything from them directly, >> you're probably affected. >> >> Lastpass has posted a page where you can enter your email address and >> see if you were affected. >> >> https://lastpass.com/adobe/ >> >> I'm sure there are many other resources related to the subject. >> >> I was affected. That email address is obsolete, but now I'm having to >> jump through hoops and check my lastpass database to make sure that >> password is no longer in use anywhere. I'm also having to harass Adobe >> customer service to try to determine if I ever had a credit card >> attached to the account and which one, if any that was, all the while, >> explaining that I have a different email address now. >> >> Here's a quote from the blurb on the Lastpass website: >> >> <quote on> >> >> Adobe Has Been Hacked! >> >> Adobe has confirmed that hackers infiltrated their network and stole >> millions of customer emails and encrypted passwords. They have further >> acknowledged that your password hint, name, encrypted credit card >> number, card expiration date, and other confidential information may >> also have been leaked. An analysis of the hack by Paul Ducklin of Sophos >> states that 150 million users have been affected and that the encryption >> methods used to protect customer data are extremely weak. >> >> <quote off> >> >> I find this infuriating. Now I have to spend days reviewing my security >> and finances because they couldn't figure out how to do things right. >> >> Anyway, hope the info is helpful. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Ron >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat >
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