Other take-away: 'Tis safer to Pirate than to Rent.
-- CHS On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Wolf Halton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 That email address is obsolete, but now I'm having to 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat > >
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