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Author:  TurdDrive [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:14 am ]
Post subject:  Change all your passwords.
Read this,
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
and i advise to Change all your passwords.
Author:  Herr General [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:37 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
I fail to see how this is relevant, unless they are going after RS. And RS isn't exactly a priority target.
Author:  ShadowBlade [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Not these worthless wastes of space..
Author:  Beta_krogoth [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
These guys are acutally good for the industry, showing up just how ♥♥♥♥♥ bad the security is! maybe these companies will put a little bit more effort now into acutally protecting our infomation!

Do you know what the worst part is? Facebook had better security. they couldn't hack facebook.

And yeah, we seriously don't need to change our passwords here... Over-reactions ftw.
Author:  Sgt. Kelly [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
For the most part they're just doing DDoS attacks, which have nothing to do with site security.

Anyway, I hope someone arrests these worthless dopes. They're not even worth their own thread.
Author:  Klotzstein [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Nice troll website . I can do better trolololol
Author:  Bjossi [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
TurdDrive does say all your passwords, which suggests he has all websites/services in mind.

Changing a password in itself is useless unless these guys already hacked the specific website/service, acquired encrypted passwords and the decryption keys. Making your password longer/stronger would only protect it better against a brute force attack on your account (A necessary attack if they don't acquire decryption keys.). Though this can depend on how good the hashing of the passwords is.
Author:  DarkCarnivour [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Beta_krogoth wrote:
These guys are acutally good for the industry, showing up just how ♥♥♥♥♥ bad the security is! maybe these companies will put a little bit more effort now into acutally protecting our infomation!
Well, that is about the most positive it could be. I hope that it helps in that way.

I really hate the idea of causing trouble and harm "just because we can" or "just for fun". That's like walking down the street and pushing old folks over "just because I can!"
And the idea of attacking people who aren't doing anything bad is about as lame as it gets.

But, so far, they don't seem to be causing any real bad harm so it is probably good to have a bunch of lame-asses like these testing your security rather than really malicious assholes. And hopefully it will get companies to improve security.

Though I don't see how DDoS attacks could be helping anyone.

The other really bad part of this is that this sort of shit encourages justification of internet regulation. It would make sense that the butt derivatives that want to regulate and control the internet (even more) would sponsor hacking, but I would expect them to perform much more devastating hacks to properly instill terror. On that note, perhaps these sort of soft hacks will harden up the internet to protect itself from real threats.

The problem with passwords being taken from another site is that if you use the same password in many places, they have your password for all those places. That data could be sold to degenerates such as spammers.
Author:  Bjossi [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Password strength is defined by length, character set and unpredictability. This of course assumes that you use varying passwords, as DC said it can be risky to use the same one in many places although the risk is minor unless the hackers also get hold of your browsing history.

If a website lets you write a case-sensitive password with 94 characters available, increasing the length by just one or two characters can make it brutal for a brute-force attack to guess. 94^6 = 689,869,781,056 possible passwords, while 94^7 = 64,847,759,400,000 and 94^8 = 6,095,689,390,000,000. This is quite simplified though, there is more to password encoding than this.
Author:  Herr General [ Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Well, they apparently took down cia.gov. Which isn't much of a target, considering it has no classified info whatsoever. It's a publicity stunt, that's all.
Author:  Sgt. Kelly [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Change all your passwords.
Looks like these little kiddies have disbanded. http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/06/27/lulzs ... passwords/

This comes shortly after they were hacked by a different group which released the personal information of the LulzSec fellows. Hopefully the feds will pick them up now.


By the way, if you own Battlefield Heroes, definitely change your password.
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