alika
msg:4073530 | 2:57 pm on Feb 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Twitter reset my password yesterday. The email stated that my account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter.
However, I have not seen any unauthorized posts though, and I only connected my Twitter account to trusted sites (feedburner, tweetmeme, etc). And I never use file sharing, music sharing or movie downloads.
But well, they say reset your password so I reset my password :o)
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Zamboni
msg:4073545 | 3:11 pm on Feb 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
If you use the same password at other sites, I would take it as a warning to change your password at all of them as well.
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g1smd
msg:4073717 | 7:03 pm on Feb 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Use software like Keepass to store your online passwords, and choose a new and different password for every site and service that you use and access.
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Gomvents
msg:4073866 | 9:58 pm on Feb 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
as g1smd suggested, keepass is great! Remember one good password and then copy / paste highly secure passwords from keepass. I personally save Facebook's password in firefox but I only use that password for Facebook and if it ever got compromised I'd change it. I change all my passwords once or twice a year anyways for additional security.
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physics
msg:4073938 | 11:41 pm on Feb 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Agreed that software to manage different passwords is the way to go. Needs to be encryption in there somewhere. I use a little Java program for this now but would like something easier to use. Every time this comes up I tell myself I'll use [clipperz.com...]
Would still memorize my bank password and any other super-critical ones but I've gotta think the ease of using many many many different passwords for 'medium security' sites with Clipperz has to outweigh any risk of storing the info (encrypted!) online. Right!?
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JS_Harris
msg:4074116 | 5:01 am on Feb 4, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Impressive, Twitter staff is able to see the backend of torrent sites and make strong accusations and tie it in with specific twitter users, not to mention modify the twitter users account?
You know this stuff is going on, more and more "big" sites work with authorities to keep an eye on you/everyone, but the net feels increasingly UNsafe when you realize the "good guys" can do what the "bad guys" do even if under a veil of good will.
NOT giving up privacy, to good guys or bad, is near impossible these days and that's the real problem.
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engine
msg:4074469 | 6:28 pm on Feb 4, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Good reasons for changing your passwords [status.twitter.com] As part of our ongoing efforts to monitor our user base for odd activity, we noticed a sudden surge in followers for a couple accounts in the last five days. Given the circumstances surrounding this, we felt it was best to push out a password reset to accounts that were following these suspicious users.
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