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08-06-2014, 05:21 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by easysurfer
Hopefully this hacker incident is a wake up call for sites to stop using the email as a user id.
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Not sure this is really a problem. I suppose they could spoof the hacked site and send to my email, but I wouldn't respond to such spoofs.
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08-06-2014, 06:06 PM
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Я не волнуюсь о некотором российском хакере, врывающемся в любой из моих счетов. Теперь, те Грузины, с другой стороны...
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08-06-2014, 06:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by M Paquette
Я не волнуюсь о некотором российском хакере, врывающемся в любой из моих счетов. Теперь, те Грузины, с другой стороны...
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Another hacker from the land of Putin?
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08-06-2014, 06:14 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
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Originally Posted by M Paquette
Я не волнуюсь о некотором российском хакере, врывающемся в любой из моих счетов. Теперь, те Грузины, с другой стороны...
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You mean where they grow the peaches? 
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08-06-2014, 06:24 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Lsbcal
Not sure this is really a problem. I suppose they could spoof the hacked site and send to my email, but I wouldn't respond to such spoofs.
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I'm thinking more like if the bad guys know your email, they go to a place where you have an account and then do a password reset.
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08-06-2014, 06:35 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by audreyh1
On that Krebs article - READ THE COMMENTS!
There is more going on than meets the eye. Layers of "spin" it seems.
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Could you summarize what kind of things you are seeing in the comments?
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08-06-2014, 06:49 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by easysurfer
I'm thinking more like if the bad guys know your email, they go to a place where you have an account and then do a password reset.
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They could take over my Wall St. Journal subscription but only if they can answer the secret question.
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08-06-2014, 07:24 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by Lsbcal
They could take over my Wall St. Journal subscription but only if they can answer the secret question.
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I'm letting them take my membership to the Justin Bieber fan club.
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08-06-2014, 07:27 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Originally Posted by m paquette
Я не волнуюсь о некотором российском хакере, врывающемся в любой из моих счетов. Теперь, те Грузины, с другой стороны...
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Американцы идет, пожалуйста, чтобы получить с улицы!
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Все ваши базы принадлежат нам
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08-06-2014, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by telly
Американцы идет, пожалуйста, чтобы получить с улицы!
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Все ваши базы принадлежат нам
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Они установили нас бомбу!
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08-07-2014, 05:30 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by M Paquette
Я не волнуюсь о некотором российском хакере, врывающемся в любой из моих счетов. Теперь, те Грузины, с другой стороны...
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Love google translate! translate.google.com
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