Hacked!
 

Hey guys, it's January, it might be time to change your passwords. I was minding my business yesterday evening when I noticed some strange emails coming in from a site I'm registered to. I checked what was going on and notice my password didn't work anymore so I contacted the admin of the site and asked them to lock my account.

Luckily, they stopped, and my account was restored back to me, and I have decided to change my passwords on all sites I'm a member of, and use different passwords for each site. I stumbled upon Keepass, a password database of sorts that is real user friendly and best of all, FREE!

I don't want this to happen to my fellow Kaleu's, especially if it was something like your banking information. So just a friendly reminder that it may be time to change your passwords.


Note: Here is the link to the KeePass site: http://keepass.info/

i got brainz 0.9.
Got some serious issues and Bugs, but will serve me a lifetime. No software crashes, no upgrades downgrades and runs on any OS too.:up:

And, always used a different pw for your serious stuff (online banking, Paypal) and others for forums, and accounts.

Very good recommendation. With software like KeePass and taking HunderzehnGustav's recommendation, Brainz, makes it real easy to manage all the different passwords.

My Facebook account was hacked once. Didn´t do much damage though. The worst part was liking Justin Bieber. I don´t have anything personal against him, but I don´t like the music. It was more like a facerape sort of hacking, just posting some strange statuses and liking strange stuff.

I have just a spreadsheet file printed on paper. The file is kept on USB stick inside TrueCrypt container with about a meter long password.

For serious stuff (banking, shops you buy in) it pays - if you do not have a virtual keyboard to enter your password) to use a small, cheap USB stick with low capacity. Create an unsuspicioulsy rceated txt-file. There list the password - better passcode - that you need. Right-click and "copy" it, close the stick then go to the shop site, anter aour account name and then paste the code. That way you can bypass any keylogger that you might have already installed on your system.

I use two such USB sticks for going to my banking site, and a bookshop I frequently use. Costed me 3 Euros per stick.

The method is not fail-safe, however: if somebody has a constant stream of screenshots from your desktop being set to him, you are screwed again.

Passwords encryption and according manager programs have one disadvantage: your passwords nevertheless are stored on your HD and the safe place they are in can be found, the encryption can be tried to break through. Better solution is the physical disconnection, not just a software-installed pseudo-"disconnection". Set your browser so that all your passwords and temp files get deleted when you leave your browser. Use a sandbox. Don't use passwords - use passcodes.

Consider your privacy to be a high value item - to yourself so to guard it, but also business and criminals seeing it as prey. Do not trade it carelessly away. It's bad enough that all your internet activity nevertheless gets stored forever on American servers, being potential subject for any checking for the rest of your life.

Do not use cloud storage.

Try hard to be as paranoid as you can be. Because in the digital world, there is no such thing like "paranoia". ;)

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i was gonna say that copypaste trick is neat.

one more: that text file on the usb, make it hidden.:D

Comes free with Windows. Just hit right Windows key + u and select the virtual keyboard (I usually also change it's size so it's not the standard layout).:rock: