I must say between Lulzsec, the Fed, maybe Anonymous, and this Jester fellow that this sounds positively exciting. http://images.blippitt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Popcorn-02-Stephen-Colbert.gif.



Better yet maybe a 3v1 curbstomb battle with Anon, Jester, and Gov against LulzSec. Purely hypothetical of course but one can imagine.

It's truly tragic what being a geeky/nerdy/can't find a girlfriend for the life of, can turn a person into. :confused:






:P

I just read up on th3j35t3r and he sounds like the internet equivalent of the Punisher/Batman. Or at least he portrays himself that way. :disguise:

I don't suppose you mean that Nosferatu dude from Bloodlines? :unsure:

No, he means the RL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick.

Cool, Troika must've been referring to him when they named the Nosferatu hacker Mitnick. Never knew that.

Well I did find http://i.imgur.com/8w5rJ.jpg. Apparently that's Anonymous's stance. All rather pretentious I say.

WE SERVE TEH INTERNET JUSTICE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL AND INSPIRATION FOR ALL IN COMPLETE SELFLESSNESS WE'RE BAD ASS

Then Lulzsec is the exact opposite in an equally annoying way.

Now I feel old. Thank you. :shifty:

All I see is nerds on a power trip.

Indeed.

And it looks like they've released emails and passwords now. I hope it's not related to Bethesda. It's on their twitter.

They claim its over 62,000 emails/passwords available via download from mediafire. My bet is their distributing bot software or some other form of malware.

From the replies that they are getting, it looks to be WoW accounts.

At least it isn't us, still though, my bet is their using it as an opportunity to distrubte malware.

The replies are all over the place though.....its odd. Some are getting Paypal information, some on Facebook/Gmail/Hotmail accounts.

This has all really made me re-think how lax I am with internet security.

Is ZoneAlarm worth getting?

In september 2010, they used a scareware tactic with the free vision of their software to attempt to scare users into getting the paid version. Even if the product is good, that kind of thing makes me doubt their ethics.

This whole [censored] storm has at the very least given me a good excuse to re-password and re-secure almost everything that's important to me. I've pretty much changed everything I use regularly to a randomly generated string of characters and am now storing them in a password manager, a little bit more inconvenient but much more secure. A week ago if you knew 1 of my passwords, you knew all of them.

The list itself apparently says that it's a random collection of emails and passwords they gathered from all over the place. My guess is that some of these just happen to work on those services.

Yup. What I'm in the process of doing. I went to change the email on all the accounts I have everywhere, got to the EA website and can't change my password because it won't let me create a Master ID. Not impressed.

People really need to stop using the same usernames/passwords everywhere.

Guilty. It's just too convenient.

When you have 200 registered accounts over the internet, this is necessary. Perhaps it's time for a cloud pw manager? Or perhaps it could be a vulnerability itself.

I can understand using the same password for "junk services" that you don't really care about, but if you use the same password for everything, you are just asking to be hacked.

Using unique passwords for services that are important to your security is a must. I recommend either getting a password management program or just writing them all down. I have a lot of unique passwords written physically in case I forget any of them. Most of them that I use frequently I have memorized. I couldn't remember them easily when I first created them, but that's something you learn with time.

And when it comes to creating those unique passwords:
- Don't use real words
- Use a combination of capital and lower case letters
- Use numbers
- Throw in a symbol or two

Do that and you are 10x more secure than most people on the internet.

Personal experience: I used to be a WoW player. One day about a year and a half ago, I found my account compromised by Chinese hackers who had somehow acquired my account information. I was using the same information for everything I had at the time. Through that, hackers managed to access my WoW account, my Xbox Live gamertag, my email, my Steam account, my Photobucket account, my PayPal account, and my Facebook. My Photobucket, PayPal, and email were 100% compromised and lost to me forever. Everything else I managed to get back with some effort. And that is the day that I learned the hard way to use more than one email and unique passwords for everything. You hear the same story happen to other people, and you make their mistakes anyways because you assume that it will never happen to you. But it does happen, and it's better to be safe than sorry.

Well I just downloaded it. (On a linux machine behind a VPN). Wow there are a ton of logins there, glad I am not on there. All it is a .txt file.

Edit-Also, it is amazing how many people use password as their password, 148 contain password.

Apologies :laugh:

Up until recently I only used two or three passwords for everything myself. A thread here about internet security (I think it was by Defron) prompted me to change that. I now use easy to remember variations of the same password, all containing capital and lower case letters, numbers and a few symbols on the services that permit such. No real words in it, but every letter is the first word of a sentence, so I am unlikely to forget it. Seems to work rather well.