Today is now International Password Awareness Day!! If you share passwords, don’t have unique passwords between services/sites, use words that can be found in a dictionary, or have passwords that are less than at least 10 characters (extra points for the longer and more complex) GO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS. There are so many pieces of software out there like keepass, lastpass, passwordsafe that will allow you to store your passwords. Not being able to remember your passwords is not a good enough excuse anymore.

DONT DO STUFF LIKE THIS

We can fix this problem if we hold each other to higher standards!

Accounts exposed in the hack of Ashley Madison, had passwords that were just as weak as the rest of the internet, according to research group, CynoSure Prime, that cracked the encryption on 11.7 million of them. The top three: 123456, 12345, and password.

Here are the top 100 most common passwords found:

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Adult Friend Finder, the no-strings sex solicitation service that’s familiar to anyone who’s ever visited a porn site, was apparently just the victim of an enormous data breach, exposing millions of people who clicked banner ads hoping to get laid.

The person behind the leak, who goes by ROR[RG], claims he hacked Adult Friend Finder because they owed a friend of his money:

ADULTFRIENDFINDER.COM > this is for owing my guy $247,938.28 BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

You have been ROOTED ;D

Cuz Itz Pay yo DUEZ or we COMIN 4 U!!!!!!

shout outz to Hell for the bandwidth:

Word to the wise, don’t use your work email address for kinky sex sites. .gov accounts anyone?

UPDATE: now you can check if your email was in the dump

Crack open any Master combination lock in 8 combinations or less! This online tool and new technique will allow you to learn the combination of any Master combo lock with only eight attempts.

Security researcher Mark Burnett has released 10,000,000 username/password combos he’s downloaded from well-publicized hacks. https://xato.net/passwords/ten-million-passwords/

 

You can quickly check here: https://rehmann.co/projects/10mil/ (limited to first 25 results)

The rankings were created by SplashData who compiled from files containing millions of stolen passwords posted online by hackers in 2012 and ranked them in order of popularity. It’s all similar to year’s past but we’ve got some new additions at the end of the list in Jesus and password1. The company advises consumers or businesses using any of the passwords on the list to change them immediately.

“Even though each year hacking tools get more sophisticated, thieves still tend to prefer easy targets,” Slain said. “Just a little bit more effort in choosing better passwords will go a long way toward making you safer online.”

 

Here’s the full list: (more…)

Just head over to the service’s website and enter a password in the form. You do not necessarily have to enter a password that you use actively. You can alternatively enter a comparable password to find out how long it would take to hack your password with a brute force, or maybe a combined dictionary and brute force attack.

http://www.howsecureismypassword.net/

Recently, hackers hacked into the databases of various public and private organizations (Sony, MySpace, Gawker, PBS, etc) and released millions of user accounts along with associated emails and passwords. Since there are a number of different databases, it is not really viable to check them on your own and see if your account was also leaked.

Should I Change My Password is a useful website that was created to help you easily check if your account was among those released to the public by hackers. The site uses databases released by hackers to check and match your email against the records in those databases. Simply enter your email and click “Check it!”.

If your email is found among the records, you should immediately change your password to protect your account.

 

Features:

• Checks if your password was compromised in recent hacker attacks (in 2011).
• Uses a number of databases released by hackers to the public.
• Your emails and passwords are not stored in their database.
• List of compromised databases posted on the website. See “Sources” at the bottom.
• Free, no registration needed. Simply enter your email address to search the records.

Check out ShouldIChangeMyPassword @ www.shouldichangemypassword.com (via Lifehacker)

We are about 20 hours in for our fundraiser for Childs Play Charity we will be playing all the Nintendo Mario Brothers series from start to finish. We are just under $1000 donated of our $3000 goal. If you have a dollar or two to spare please help out. It’s for a really great cause. For more info: http://nesit.net/marathon/ Watch us play live and donate 🙂 If anyone is in the area feel free to stop down and play a few levels 🙂