Scary--Online poker players READ!!

[Agent 0659]

Posted at a poker forum I frequent..
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Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:33 am Post subject: BEWARE---- Full Tilt Users

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I have an account with Full Tilt. My account with them has been hacked. Someone has taken over my account. I can no longer log on. They were trying to transfer my funds to them. 1 transfer went through. Please be careful. I had only like $100 on there. But I'm sure that someone on this forum probably has $1000 or more on Full Tilt. Please be aware of the possibility of being hacked. I might loose $90, but someone may be out $1000.

Please be careful, they are not as secure as you probably think.

For all you "anti-online" poker players, here ya go, it does happen, and you're right.

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I can give anyone info where to find the full story and how his account might have been hacked.

Jack Im taking down my names on sites I have listed here as it could be a source for one of these guys. Maybe Im paranoid but scary to me. :scared :scared :scared
One of the ways may have been guessing passwords for this guy. How did you choose your password? Do you change it regularly? Is it random? Want to do some research on this. Others please help!!

 

[MadJack]

all you have to do is use a good password.

 

[Agent 0659]

Seems to be a possibility Jack :scared Could you give an example of a good password?

 

[yyz]

A good password:


83udj49j73tb


anything with numbers and letters that don't have any natural order.

 

[freelancc]

83udj49j73tb

:142lmao:

 

[Agent 0659]

:142lmao:

:shrug: :shrug:

 

[doochuk]

if you don't know of a good one then chances are you need a new one

 

[bsucards]

A good password is one that is made up of letters, numbers and symbols

I use different passwords for most everything or a combination of passwords.

 

[ryson]

Selecting Good Passwords

Rationale

The object when choosing a password is to make it as difficult as possible for a cracker to make educated guesses about what you've chosen. This leaves him no alternative but a brute-force search, trying every possible combination of letters, numbers, and punctuation. A search of this sort, even conducted on a machine that could try one million passwords per second (most machines can try less than one hundred per second), would require, on the average, over one hundred years to complete.

What Not to Use

* Don't use your login name in any form (as-is, reversed, capitalized, doubled, etc.).

* Don't use your first or last name in any form.

* Don't use use your spouse's or child's name.

* Don't use other information easily obtained about you. This includes license plate numbers, telephone numbers, social security numbers, the brand of your automobile, the name of the street you live on, etc.

* Don't use a password of all digits, or all the same letter. This significantly decreases the search time for a cracker.

* Don't use a word contained in (English or foreign language) dictionaries, spelling lists, or other lists of words.

* Don't use a password shorter than six characters.

What to Use

* Do use a password with mixed-case alphabetic characters.

* Do use a password with nonalphabetic characters, e.g., digits or punctuation.

* Do use a password that is easy to remember, so you don't have to write it down.

* Do use a password that you can type quickly, without having to look at the keyboard. This makes it harder for someone to steal your password by watching over your shoulder.

Method to Choose Secure and Easy to Remember Passwords

* Choose a line or two from a song or poem, and use the first letter of each word. For example, ``In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree'' becomes ``IXdKKaspdd.''

* Alternate between one consonant and one or two vowels, up to eight characters. This provides nonsense words that are usually pronounceable, and thus easily remembered. Examples include ``routboo,'' ``quadpop,'' and so on.

* Choose two short words and concatenate them together with a punctuation character between them. For example: ``dog;rain,'' ``book+mug,'' ``kid?goat.''

 

[Blitz]

I81U812

 

[dawgball]

if you don't know of a good one then chances are you need a new one

This might be the funniest post ever on this board. Too bad it is in a thread where it probably won't be seen.

yyz--how did you figure out my password? as a side note, i would also throw in a symbol such as an exclamation point if possible.