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Password Vulnerability Fix - Posted: 08-30-2008
All users that have made their account here with Vulnerable passwords (i.e. password same as their user name) have had their passwords reset and sent the following email. If you are one of these people and are having issues please reply here.
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Dear XXXX,http://www.blizzsector.net/profile.php?do=editpassword
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good thinking spitfire, that should remind people to use stronger passwords
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I bet Pam got the message.
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Dear XXXX,
You reset that guys password to the same thing as his username? That doesn't seem very secure.
I'm not stupid, I was making a joke.
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You reset that guys password to the same thing as his username? That doesn't seem very secure.I'm not stupid, I was making a joke.
You misunderstood.
The four star thingy was just showing you an example.
What it probably would look like is this
Account = Exmp
Pass = 7653
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Har har har! I gots me one! Highlight the text under my statement.
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Har har har! I gots me one! Highlight the text under my statement.
Now I'm confused.
What?
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Highlight his first post, you'll see words appear like magic.
Nobody can handle the leetness of this sig.
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ohhh... I was highlighting up and down after he said that, and I didnt see a damn thing.
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I should say something... but I won't.
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my password is a generic one...at least for me. all critical accounts (such as MSN) has a harder password. but most of my accounts has the same pass as blizzsector.
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I use the same unlikely password for this as I do for virtually everything in my life.
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sometimes the best password is obvious. but most times its dangerous. (some people have a hard time finding the obvious)
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Obvious passwords such as user name and password the same are easy for people to hack. Simply setup a brute force bot that tries every username on a forum entering in the username as the password.
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mine is a diffrent kind of obvious.
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