Pm's and private messages

[Ass Hunter]

What you mean you were there when JFK was shot

Holding the gun lol

[willie wacker]

Holding the gun lol

I wonder was that the smoking gun

[Cassandra]

That's not how it works though. All the major breaches are either chance social engineering (that can happen anytime but can be 100% stopped by good staff training) or a new vulnerability being found in the platform and exploited before a patch can be applied. It's all a matter of timing on the latter given the number of major vulnerabilities across all platforms in the last few years that have been discovered, it's a constant battle.

huh okay. I'll pretend I understood all that, I'll just add it to my list of things to quietly worry about :P

[LuckyLu]

Ive been to Dallas, after having seen so many documentaries I imagined it a bit further away.
the street is quiet close to the window he has been shot from.

[FatBastard]

huh okay. I'll pretend I understood all that, I'll just add it to my list of things to quietly worry about :P

No need to worry, just mitigate the potential fallout. Yahoo is in the news right now we're waiting on them to confirm 200 million accounts being breached. Now, when the list [of email addresses and passwords] goes public, and they always do someone could look for any @yahoo.ie accounts and try them here since you can log in with an email address. Lesson to be learned is use a different password on every service, and consider using a password manager like lastpass to keep you from having to remember a ton of different random passwords.

Whenever a breach like that happens all the "hacking" that follows is people using the leaked email addresses and passwords randomly on different websites because most people are daft enough to reuse the same password everywhere. Any yes I'm speaking from experience after a game service had a breach a few years ago. Trust me, it's a hell of alot easier to set up a password manager NOW rather than after your email address and standard password are out there, and some bastard in Brazil logs in and changes the password on other sites before I get a chance to

[Gobshite]

I notice that the Mods have refrained from commenting on the pm issue. Why?

[Mister Anderson]

The best hacking tools out there are made by Security engineers and are made freely available, The very people who safeguard systems on the internet from hackers. Strange but that's how they keep ahead of it and keeps them in a job too I guess.

Unfortunately you've also got large organisations like the NSA hoarding unknown quantities of exploits. Every time a security firm delivers a patch for a known vulnerability someone in Fort Meade makes a sad face and crosses off another avenue of attack from their list of 'unknown' vulnerabilities.

[FatBastard]

What I was talking about.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37447016

It can happen anywhere, I wonder what E-I's policy is on going public when a data breach happens given it took Yahoo 2 years to come clean.............

[FatBastard]

I think EI have got this covered, surely with their encryption. . xx.

Well, at least the connection to and from the foreign companies' server residing in a foreign data centre is secure

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