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Attention - Password and Security Update

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Hello all,

Over the next few days we will be implementing some changes to our forum password strength and password expiration policies. To make sure you continue having the best experience possible on the community, we regularly monitor the site and the Internet to keep everyone's account information safe. We've recently become aware of a potential risk to some accounts coming from outside of this community. Just to be safe, we are implementing the following changes to improve security even further:

1) We are asking everyone to change their passwords (and will force a one time reset). Along with every user on the forum, new passwords will need to be more complex, and can't be simple words (sorry, you can't have "fluffy" as your password anymore!). Please use a password unique to this community. Reusing passwords can expose your account indirectly when other websites (Twitter, Linkedin, Badoo, etc) are compromised; and

2) Your passwords will expire on a 365 day basis. When you login on the 366th day, you will have to change it.

We'll also be sending out an email to users to let them know about the changes, in upcoming weeks.

Thanks all,

Helena

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The way i look at it is if somebody hacks my VR password and posts idiotic stuff like I do, nobody will know the difference. Eventually they will get bored with all this horse crap and move on.

Its a social media site. What in the hell would anybody gain from hacking this site? Just sayin.

Hopefully they will learn about loud pipes, ATGATT, and what damn oil is best to use.

Carry on.
Ghost In The Machine gives some good information below, but the main reason is that if a user uses the same password across multiple sites (LinkedIn, Email, Banking) then they become unsecured as well.

why all the different kinds, well if you ever tried cracking a password the more complex the more combinations the pc has to try, read somewhere once that even adding one uppercase letter and one number to a password almost triples the amount of time the average hackers password cracker takes to crack it.
Thanks for the post Ghost, I just wanted to touch on this point here so that others will read it. Having a complex password is a good starting point to safer web surfing.

Thanks,
-JB

No problem man, I learned long ago that if you dont know someone does something you cannot prevent it from happening.

Even using the basic Element inspector is something I recommend to all my friends to learn, it shows how a website functions, images on a shoddily constructed websites can be backtracked to Dropbox accounts, or even Ip addresses, a basic understanding of how the internet works in the hands of every pc owner I believe would cut hacks in half in less than a year.

But the main issue is thus, so many sites are now trying to use one password for everything.

Google is the biggest Culprit it took me days to get it sorted out, so it makes me wonder.....how many people's passwords for here are the same as something like their google accounts?

Thats the issue here, apathy while it all is worse case scenario...it is still a scenario.
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Thats the issue here, apathy while it all is worse case scenario...it is still a scenario.
I was going to argue against this point... but meh... why bother? >:)
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No problem man, I learned long ago that if you dont know someone does something you cannot prevent it from happening.

Even using the basic Element inspector is something I recommend to all my friends to learn, it shows how a website functions, images on a shoddily constructed websites can be backtracked to Dropbox accounts, or even Ip addresses, a basic understanding of how the internet works in the hands of every pc owner I believe would cut hacks in half in less than a year.

But the main issue is thus, so many sites are now trying to use one password for everything.

Google is the biggest Culprit it took me days to get it sorted out, so it makes me wonder.....how many people's passwords for here are the same as something like their google accounts?

Thats the issue here, apathy while it all is worse case scenario...it is still a scenario.
Or worse, their personal banking info or email address. Having one password for things is very unsecured, and I have known people personally who have done it.

This will allow members to have an extra safety net.

Thanks,
- JB
Damn password resets!!!!!!!

I'm on another Forum administered by these guys! I got my NEW password, used it properly each time and got LOCKED OUT after 5 wrong attempts! .................with the password they sent me! WTF!!!!

I'm not impressed.

The email they sent says to contact them if you have a problem ........................CAN'T .....................I can't log in!

F
I'm still LOCKED OUT of the hdstreetforums.com ..........................F'n new Password they sent me won't allow me back in!!!!!!!!
ADMIN ..............................Been nice knowing you all!!!!!

I've tried, and tried and tried to log into the HD Street Forum and keep getting locked out! I'm following YOUR instructions with the password YOU sent me and after 5 wrong attempts each time, I get LOCKED OUT!

Great new approach you're taking here!

If I can't get into the other site again, later tonight, when it resets and allows me to try again .................well, Been nice knowing you! YOUR SITE SUCKS

Obviously it will be the same thing here when you send the the new password!

I don't have time to sit here all day F'ing around with a password reset

Ciao!

BTW, can't even message you
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This site is small potatoes and so are 99% of the 200 active members.

Tell me what my Facebook user name is and I will send you $50.00 straight away...no questions asked. (well other than to whom and where to mail the check?
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Glenda won't even respond to you ..................................locked out again, after 5 attempts on the HD Street Forum.

Wait till they reset this Forum!

I've been trying to get back onto the HD Forum since around 3:00 this afternoon! 5 HOURS!

Freakin' unbelievable
Again:

45m passwords stolen from over 1,100 VerticalScope forums

You guys messed up didn't ya? There is nothing you have done that was a simple transition and now my super secret password needs to be changed.
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ADMIN ..............................Been nice knowing you all!!!!!

I've tried, and tried and tried to log into the HD Street Forum and keep getting locked out! I'm following YOUR instructions with the password YOU sent me and after 5 wrong attempts each time, I get LOCKED OUT!

Great new approach you're taking here!

If I can't get into the other site again, later tonight, when it resets and allows me to try again .................well, Been nice knowing you! YOUR SITE SUCKS

Obviously it will be the same thing here when you send the the new password!

I don't have time to sit here all day F'ing around with a password reset

Ciao!

BTW, can't even message you
The email address you have there does not match the one you have here. that could probably be your issue.

Send a PM over and we can get it sorted.

Helena
Again:

45m passwords stolen from over 1,100 VerticalScope forums

You guys f*(ked up didn't ya? I knew you all were a bunch of hacks. I had you all figured for awhile. There is nothing you have done that was a simple transition and now my super secret password needs to be changed.
Actually that is no the facts, they have account info for those sites. not all passwords. They only have ones that matched other sites like twitter and FB passwords, or ones that were easy.

The hack came from a third party plug in, so it happened to a lot of VB sites.

Helena
Well I don't do Twit or FB but I do have over $20M in laundered money in the Caymans I'd really like to hold on to. :p
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The email address you have there does not match the one you have here. that could probably be your issue.

Send a PM over and we can get it sorted.

Helena
But I'm following the prompts you sent me via email, and the new temporary password.
Obviously I'm using the email account you sent the new password to

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Let me ask you all this question.

If the VR got hit by a ransom-ware virus, like many companies, hospitals, police departments, etc. have, how much money would you be willing to pay to get this site/data back operational? I am asking based on what each member of the VR would be willing to chip in to get the VR back up and running.

I have been on the receiving end of this because I work in an IT department ...can't get into any details because the FBI is involved but I can tell you this. All hell broke loose and I would rather have a root canal with a rusty machete than go through that again. Its what happens when a company won't spend the $ recommended by the IT staff, industry experts...etc.
They have our passwords now so why not just keep using them? We don't want to confuse them.
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:grin2:I just the email that I my PW was changed.

Nice... :grin2:
:grin2:I just the email that I my PW was changed.

Nice... :grin2:
I just got that email as well after changing my password in the last few days from another exact email. Then when you go to copy and paste the new temporary password it says wrong answer, you have 4 more tries. LOL

It's not a point anymore of wondering what they are doing but instead questioning their intelligence. It would be nice if what they do resembles some sort of intelligence.
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I just got mine too

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