Passwords on important sites
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Diesel Wrench
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From: Oklahoma
Passwords on important sites
i have to share this boring stuff because more and more it's becoming important..
i do business with wally world. they have a retail link web site that allows us invoice them and it also allows them to send us purchase orders.
a couple of weeks ago i had to do a routine change of my pass word to gain access to their site..... Easy huh, no not at wally world....
they now require that the password have upper and lower case numbers and symbols as well as upper and lower case letters and be at lest 8 digits long...
hackers now have become so smart that upper and lower case letters only are easy for them break into.... i guess they have programs now that can break your password codes....
so remember if you have a pasword for something important like your bank account you might consider an upper and lower case alpha numeric password.....
super boring info i know but maybe worth considering.
i do business with wally world. they have a retail link web site that allows us invoice them and it also allows them to send us purchase orders.
a couple of weeks ago i had to do a routine change of my pass word to gain access to their site..... Easy huh, no not at wally world....
they now require that the password have upper and lower case numbers and symbols as well as upper and lower case letters and be at lest 8 digits long...
hackers now have become so smart that upper and lower case letters only are easy for them break into.... i guess they have programs now that can break your password codes....
so remember if you have a pasword for something important like your bank account you might consider an upper and lower case alpha numeric password.....
super boring info i know but maybe worth considering.
Last edited by Maj Easy; Jul 13, 2007 at 07:04 AM.
Diesel Enthusiast
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The bank i use, have a 3 step, first lock in, then use a key generator with a password, then it shows 4 more digits there have to match. Wife has one and i have one, i color marked them with a paint pen.
Any activity is tracked by what keygenerator is used.
Each person have to call to set it up.
Works great, took a couple of day to get the hang of it
Any activity is tracked by what keygenerator is used.
Each person have to call to set it up.
Works great, took a couple of day to get the hang of it
Diesel Wrench
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: florissant,mo
haha.. my management codes at my work have to be replaced weekly.. 16 digits. has to contain upper and lower case at least 6 numbers and atleast 4 symbols.. do you know how much of a betch that is to remeber? 
lukily about a month ago they implemented a new security measure.. passwords are still changed.. but they do not have to be typed in.. i have a usb jump reader looking like thing.. first thing i have to do in the morning when i show up is upload my password into it every morning and at lunch and everytime during the day i need my password or passwords i just plug it into the terminal im using.. pretty sweet.. its got 4 buttons on it and i have to press them in sequence to make it work (we change the sequence on it daily in case a snoopy employee watches and trys to "borrow it, even though that would be hard as i keep it in my pocket) a lot easeir and like 100 times more sequre.. i dont know what it actually is but it looks just like a jump reader.
lukily about a month ago they implemented a new security measure.. passwords are still changed.. but they do not have to be typed in.. i have a usb jump reader looking like thing.. first thing i have to do in the morning when i show up is upload my password into it every morning and at lunch and everytime during the day i need my password or passwords i just plug it into the terminal im using.. pretty sweet.. its got 4 buttons on it and i have to press them in sequence to make it work (we change the sequence on it daily in case a snoopy employee watches and trys to "borrow it, even though that would be hard as i keep it in my pocket) a lot easeir and like 100 times more sequre.. i dont know what it actually is but it looks just like a jump reader.
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Diesel Wrench
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From: Oklahoma
watch out!
if you use netsource tech to design or manage your website they are vulnerable to attack. RVUSA.COM is a division of theirs, hackers took the whole site down, yesterday! the hacker was proud of his work and displayed the page below.... RVUSA has been on line for 12 years and was 250K hits a month....
NetSource Technologies is the leader in web design, web hosting, interactive mutimedia, and ecommerce website design for the Ocala, Jacksonville
http://www.nsource.com/
if you use netsource tech to design or manage your website they are vulnerable to attack. RVUSA.COM is a division of theirs, hackers took the whole site down, yesterday! the hacker was proud of his work and displayed the page below.... RVUSA has been on line for 12 years and was 250K hits a month....
NetSource Technologies is the leader in web design, web hosting, interactive mutimedia, and ecommerce website design for the Ocala, Jacksonville
http://www.nsource.com/
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Diesel Wrench
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From: Oklahoma
should have written:
"RVUSA has been on line for 12 years and was 250K getting hits a month"....
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wrong...... it appears RVUSA was getting 1.5 million hits per month to advertisers.....many rv dealers used their online inventory service and they are down as well.....
"RVUSA has been on line for 12 years and was 250K getting hits a month"....
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wrong...... it appears RVUSA was getting 1.5 million hits per month to advertisers.....many rv dealers used their online inventory service and they are down as well.....
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