You mean you where dim enough to open the RAR file one of your friends sent with the message "hey dude, check out this hot chick"
Thousands of Hotmail/win live passwords leaked online
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You mean you where dim enough to open the RAR file one of your friends sent with the message "hey dude, check out this hot chick"
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You can still use the "@gmail.com" extension with a "@googlemail.com" account I think
well there are plenty of ways around that my friend, after all you need to do is make google think your not in the UK,
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&sour...=&aq=2&oq=how+to+get+a+gm&fp=55b1114b05e94ce9
You can still use the "@gmail.com" extension with a "@googlemail.com" account I think
yeah you do, but when you mail people it comes from that and does not look as cool
You still can get a gmail account. I just checked.
you have to fool the system into thinking you are out side of the uk, i signed my gf up for one while i was in Slovakia and used a proxy avoidance site for another one
Soldato
lul
I'd be interested in that list also, because one of my e-mail accounts is on there... and Googling my e-mail addy is not helpful in the slightest 
I'll assume for now I'm safe, its likely phising (to be only 10,000 A-B) and I'd like to think I'm pretty sensible about strange e-mails.
I'll assume for now I'm safe, its likely phising (to be only 10,000 A-B) and I'd like to think I'm pretty sensible about strange e-mails.
I'd be interested in that list also, because one of my e-mail accounts is on there... and Googling my e-mail addy is not helpful in the slightest
I'll assume for now I'm safe, its likely phising (to be only 10,000 A-B) and I'd like to think I'm pretty sensible about strange e-mails.
How do you know yours is on there?
Also lul phising fail.
how many digitis? I am just curious. Mine is usually 4 to 6 digits.
4 is too low tbh.
A lowercase 4 char password for example is 456976 combinations, easily brute forceable. You really need to be thinking >= 8 characters these days, good mix of lower/upper case and chuck in a few symbols too. The best thing to do is use keepass or something similar http://keepass.info/ Then just remember 1 master password, and have really strong unique 20 character passwords for each of your online accounts.
As said, this 'attack' is purely a result of people being silly or uneducated
Soldato
Mine is 11 random digits, they make sense to me which is why I dont fancy changing it because its impossible to guess and because ive quite nicely remembered it.
Mines a load of random characters/letters upper and lower case, and numbers.
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
But can;t you only try 5 times every 15 minutes ?
So with that many combinations it would take months wouldn't it to brute force?
Yer fair point, it depends on the attack to be honest.
Say for example you somehow managed to break into a hotmail server and steal their hash of someones password, you could simply crack it offline pretty quickly. Going through the web front-end as you said would be infeasible though.
Yeah same, it's a phishing attack and since I am building a website focused on computer security it would be embarrassing to fall for such a trick, I change passwords every 72 days and only recently did so, I cba to do them again
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Soldato
treid googling mine was not there, I m going to try .com cos im board