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Helix666
04-22-2008, 07:59 PM
Not wishing to spread fear but...

In the past hour or two, there have been two cases (that I know of) of people losing their hotmail/messenger accounts to a hacking group calling themselves the K.S.A.

Affected accounts normally have their display name changed to something similar to: “Hacked By K.S.A.”

I don't know how many more accounts this may happen to, and I hope it is none.
Personally, I would advise that people set really strong passwords, keep their passwords safe and watch out for anything unusual.
jdbnsn
04-22-2008, 08:23 PM
+rep for the advisory!
Trace
04-22-2008, 09:44 PM
Thanks for the warning. I have some really simple pass's set currently. Changing now.
Quakken
04-22-2008, 11:58 PM
My passwords are SOLID.

Look at the strength of this one for my yahoo account, quakken- &(@bo%GH23t&@!

NOTHING'S going to crack that.
Luke122
04-23-2008, 12:19 AM
My passwords are SOLID.

Look at the strength of this one for my yahoo account, quakken- &(@bo%GH23t&@!

NOTHING'S going to crack that.

(copy/paste) mwuhahah.. I am teh 1337 H4X0r
b4i7
04-23-2008, 12:23 AM
using the word SOLID for your pw doesnt make it so ;)
Quakken
04-23-2008, 01:18 AM
It's the caps lock. NO bot would ever guess that.
DaveW
04-23-2008, 06:35 AM
Haha...thanks for the heads up.

-Dave
halcyonforever
04-23-2008, 10:25 AM
[recinded further research has prompted me to retract this statement]
Luke122
04-23-2008, 11:17 AM
I agree.. I try to avoid using public computers or cafes, as people can fairly easily keylog from those sources.

I even saw a hardware keylogger once.. plugs into the keyboard port, and has a limited amount of memory to log every keystroke coming through it.. all the owner has to do is stop in and grab it every few days then dump the contents to their machine.
halcyonforever
04-23-2008, 11:35 AM
I agree.. I try to avoid using public computers or cafes, as people can fairly easily keylog from those sources.

I even saw a hardware keylogger once.. plugs into the keyboard port, and has a limited amount of memory to log every keystroke coming through it.. all the owner has to do is stop in and grab it every few days then dump the contents to their machine.

I plan to put one of these on my computer if I ever had kids...
Liquid_Scope_99
04-23-2008, 11:04 PM
thanks for tip +rep