Email Password Stealing Bastards!

[coop68]

For any of you who have had the pleasure of dealing with me by email from my coopoloop68 aol acount note someone hacked my account bastards

someone has been send crap out in my name that issent me so please add to spam folder and delate my contact!

People who steal email passwords and forwards crap to your contact list seriously need to get a real life and drive off a cliff, because no one likes you. That is all


and since when cant we add over 15 images of fun smiley's to a post come on mods! i don't like limits just kidding!

Rant over.

coop

[Big Wall]

Same thing happened to my wife and I. We just changed our password and haven't had a problem since. All of our contacts, including her professors, were sent cialis ads.

[Pancho Villa]

Your passwords should ideally be long phrases that you can easily remember.

ie "Speak friend and enter." period included. Studies have shown that longer passwords are more effective than shorter ones that are random jumblings of letters/numbers, and its way easier to remember a phrase than it is a collection of characters.

[Irving]

How do you even say "friend" in dwarf?

[Hoosier]

For anyone using GMail and possessing a smart phone (android, iphone) you can enable two factor authentication for free. This is a huge boost to your account security. Email is the gateway to all your other accounts, through "Forgotten Password" links. If your account gets hacked, check all your account settings, they may still be forwarding a copy of all your mail out of your account.

Remember to never use the same password on more than one site!

H.

[Byte Stryke]

ie "Speak friend and enter."

there ya go again...

despising you a little less each day

[ldmaster]

That we're NOT getting married and merging our gun collections together in a spectacular display of brotherly love?

I knew it was wrong... but the temptation was too great...

[Ed_S]

Happened to me and multiple emails got sent to all my contacts, links to porno and adult dating sites.

My contacts also included all my kids teachers! Spent 1/2 day apologizing to them, fortunately they thought it was funny.

[Storm]

Your passwords should ideally be long phrases that you can easily remember.

ie "Speak friend and enter." period included. Studies have shown that longer passwords are more effective than shorter ones that are random jumblings of letters/numbers, and its way easier to remember a phrase than it is a collection of characters.

Using actual words is a bad idea, especially if it'a a phrase from a book or common language. These are susceptible to dictionary attacks. The best passwords should look like a random string of letters, numbers and if possible non-alphnumeric characters. Phrase abbreviations will work if they are not common (like TGIF).

[ChunkyMonkey]

I tipe leek muy accent - no wui 2 gas mai pass