Endless Paradigm

recently mine've been hijacked and it keep sending others some craps about iPhone 3GS
(sorry if some of you got any -.-)
anyway to stop this? or i might as well change the whole email addy (which I've sticked with for years and years, don't really want to =/)

Happened to me recently too, different mailings though.

Just change password to something completely different.

Don't use easily hackable passwords.

That is, not something that can be brute forced (8 or more characters), and also not something that can be dictionary hacked (don't use real words, or just add some numbers or stuff in between).

Heartless141 Wrote:...some craps about iPhone 3GS

It's about you getting a white iPhone, which the link doesn't even sell .

Heartless141 Wrote:recently mine've been hijacked

Your what?

Assassinator Wrote:That is, not something that can be brute forced (8 or more characters), and also not something that can be dictionary hacked (don't use real words, or just add some numbers or stuff in between).

Hybrid attacks get those with numbers / letter substitutions.
Passwords are really problematic as an authentication method and it's somewhat known, so eh...

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:That is, not something that can be brute forced (8 or more characters), and also not something that can be dictionary hacked (don't use real words, or just add some numbers or stuff in between).

Hybrid attacks get those with numbers / letter substitutions.
Passwords are really problematic as an authentication method and it's somewhat known, so eh...

Still significantly harder to crack.  fantasy  «- extremely weak.  fa8nt8as8y «- I'd be really surprised if that got hacked.

Actually up to now, my main email account pretty much hasn't even received a single sPa/\/\ email.  I register for stuff with a separate sPa/\/\ email, and don't give my main email to anyone besides for the people I'm very close to.

Assassinator Wrote:Actually up to now, my main email account pretty much hasn't even received a single sPa/\/\ email.  I register for stuff with a separate sPa/\/\ email, and don't give my main email to anyone besides for the people I'm very close to.

Pretty much the same....

I think spammers actually bother to try making up account names to send to as well.  Never gave out one of my GMail addresses and eventually found sPa/\/\ (did get filtered out though).

Now getting off-topic, just because I feel like it, I will post two slides from my random security lecture:

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Inky pinky ponky

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@ ZB I remember having similar topics when I was studying MCSE and CCNA Security... lol

I was accompanied by idiots who made me wish for destructive powers.

* Syfe has the same issue. has changed the password.

* Syfe notes Hellgiver was immune to the attack.