Uh hmmm ... WHAT?!?!?

Started by Foozball, June 06, 2024, 07:50:00 AM

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David

Prepress guy - Retired - Working from home
Livin' la Vida Loca

Foozball

I used to feel "awkward" sharing my LEGIT DVD's of Adobe CS2 with friends who wanted to try their hand at photography or "fix a family picture" using youtube guides ... not any more!


Probably one of the best $5 I ever spent at the Red White and Blue thrift store!

Tracy

The internet is getting scary, I was notified by Lifelock
that some of my data was on the Dark Web
what I found was it most likely was not anything too important
It looks like someone got my password from a not too important website.
maybe that's why I'm getting hammered with spam
I changed that password to the best of my knowledge
I think it was my drop box password
I now make the most complex ridiculous passwords
I do have to change some more.

Possum

I've gotten that message a time or two from somewhere. My favorite e-mail account got spread around many years ago, but the spam e-mail from that is long gone. I recently got a message of some kind of data breach from a place handling gas leases, but they said the database that was hacked didn't have any really important stuff. About all you can do is keep changing passwords.
Tall tree, short ropes, fix stupid.

Joe

Quote from: Foozball on June 06, 2024, 07:50:00 AM
I assume that is only stuff you put in their cloud service. No one they can access your content on you internal computers. But sure...it is fine.
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Joe

Most people would be shocked at their data that is on the dark web.  :toaster: :toaster: :toaster:
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David

I'm not, been telling people for years that if you're surfing on the interwebs, so is all your info.







and what's up with the dark web, it's always so...   dark


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Livin' la Vida Loca

Joe

Quote from: David on June 06, 2024, 10:33:31 AMI'm not, been telling people for years that if you're surfing on the interwebs, so is all your info.







and what's up with the dark web, it's always so...  dark


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Well if they turn the lights on it would no longer be the dark web.
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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Foozball

Quote from: Tracy on June 06, 2024, 08:37:45 AMThe internet is getting scary, I was notified by Lifelock
that some of my data was on the Dark Web
what I found was it most likely was not anything too important
It looks like someone got my password from a not too important website.
maybe that's why I'm getting hammered with spam
I changed that password to the best of my knowledge
I think it was my drop box password
I now make the most complex ridiculous passwords
I do have to change some more.

So no more "p@55w0rd" use as my p@55w0rd?!?! Bugger!!!

Joe

I still use "password" on all of my accounts. Criminals don't think anyone would be that stupid.
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scottrsimons

I try to use "again", so when it tells me to "Try again", I will get it right.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!" - Homer J. Simpson

Joe

Credit Wise keeps notifying me my GMAIL account password was exposed on the dark web. That happened about 8 years ago and my password has been changed several times since. I emailed them and told them they should provide what the password is that has been exposed and they replied they can't tell what the password is. Well how do you know a password has been exposed? That is useless. I have another service, IDX, that I can enter just a password and it will check if that particular password has been exposed on the dark web. Much better. When I enter my Google password into the password checker it tells me that password was not exposed on the dark web.

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Possum

And no matter how careful you are, somebody will get hacked, like Target or that health insurance place a couple of years ago.
Tall tree, short ropes, fix stupid.

Joe

The IDX service I mentioned above was free for one year because of United Healthcare getting hacked.
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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.