07-04-2010, 05:42 PM | #16 |
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think your class should be updated.. best to go for 12 characters, include more than one number and special character, and a mix of case.
often useful is a phrase, instead of spaces use numbers and special characters jacK+jilL1234 or 1cAts@dOgs1 a little tricker to type out, but also harder to hack. |
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Or you have a "passphrase" like: i look 4 my castles the whole day ! To see if the 2 of them still can fly = il4mctwd!Tsit2otscf
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07-05-2010, 06:10 AM | #20 |
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"Massive" definitely appears to be an over-statement.
Having spent a bit of time following this up, and some of the history, I find the following: 1. A significant number of accounts have been hacked, but the number is in the dozens or hundreds. This is based not on the number of posts reporting 'my account's been hacked' but on the volume of 'sales' of the offending products. They are in parts of the store where best sellers sell in dozens, not thousands. This is obviously a serious problem, especially for the victims, but "massive" isn't the adjective for this volume of a multi-million-user store. Compare with the recent AT&T iPad hack which affected over 100,000 people. 2. There is a persistent history of people having their iTunes accounts hacked, i.e. this has not just come out of the blue. Whether that means there's a specific set of vulnerabilities in the iTunes store, I don't know. 3. It's easy to check if you're a victim. Sign in to the iTunes store and check your recent purchases. 4. If you're concerned, change your password following Harry's advice. |
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It's also worth noting that the money is in Apple's bank account - the hackers don't have it, and are vanishingly unlikely to ever get it. I'm sure that when the fraudulent transactions have been clarified, the money will be refunded.
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Apparently Youtube and Wikipedia were also attacked:
Wikipedia down/ |
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Yes, just saw the update. What it has to do with this was in the body of the post...before the update: all 3 problems were thought to be related when they were reported.
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Just goes to show that one shouldn't assume that temporally related events are also causally related.
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More information is emerging about the recent iTunes App Store issues. This article by The Register suggests that around 400 accounts were compromised, and that logon credentials were obtained by a phishing attack; the iTunes Store itself was not hacked.
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