View Full Version : You might want to change your Yahoo password.
Hellow
07-12-2012, 04:55 PM
This has been all over the news today. Yahoo pulled a *huge* stupid.
https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13234
Karen
07-12-2012, 06:27 PM
Thankfully I do not have a Yahoo email address that I use, but this will be annoying for an awfully lot of people!
Freedom
07-12-2012, 06:33 PM
Marvelous, just great. :( Thanks for the heads up.
krazyaboutkatz
07-13-2012, 01:36 AM
I have one but I rarely use it and I usually forget to even check e-mails. My dad has one though and it's his main e-mail address. He's out of town now so I should probably e-mail him about this.
kitten645
07-13-2012, 11:25 AM
Here is an easy place to check:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/07/check-whether-your-yahoo-password-was-hacked.html
I :love: PBS!
kuhio98
07-13-2012, 02:16 PM
Thanks for the heads-up. I checked, and mine wasn't on the list, but I think I'll change my password anyway.
mrspunkysmom
07-13-2012, 05:05 PM
I have several email addresses, but none were listed. I use long, non-standard passwords, easy for me to remember but not easy to guess.
A little bit of math for you. 8 character password takes about two hours to a day to crack. A 12 character (including numeric and other characters) password takes considerably longer. The claims vary but range from a least a year to 44000 years. I know, sounds strange. But why not go for the long passwords. And try not to use whole words.
Mine are overdue for a change or modification anyway.
Here is a link to check possible passwords. I did not enter my passwords but made up passwords of similar style. The results were interesting.
I entered an acronym that was 14 characters long. It would take 35 centuries to crack!
Test your password. (https://passfault.appspot.com/password_strength.html#menu)
pomtzu
07-13-2012, 05:44 PM
Test your password. (https://passfault.appspot.com/password_strength.html#menu)
This is really interesting, and fun to play around with.
I entered one with 8 letters and one number, and it would only take 1 month 17 days to crack. By inserting a period at 2 different locations, it changed it to 75 centuries. Amazing. :D
CountryWolf07
07-13-2012, 06:09 PM
This is really interesting, and fun to play around with.
I entered one with 8 letters and one number, and it would only take 1 month 17 days to crack. By inserting a period at 2 different locations, it changed it to 75 centuries. Amazing. :D
I tested mine:
6 centuries, 5 decades!
;)
mrspunkysmom
07-13-2012, 08:48 PM
This is really interesting, and fun to play around with.
I entered one with 8 letters and one number, and it would only take 1 month 17 days to crack. By inserting a period at 2 different locations, it changed it to 75 centuries. Amazing. :D
What's interesting is how clever it is. If I used the word "first' and replaced it with "f1rst", it doesn't really slow it down much. Use an acronym like kp.co_fgs1 with a few non-alphanumeric characters and it takes decades to decipher. Of course, if I were a scientist, I wouldn't use that one anyway.
Catty1
07-13-2012, 11:07 PM
Mine are pathetic.....:eek:
krazyaboutkatz
07-14-2012, 03:24 AM
I guess I need to change my passwords because it says that they're too easy to crack.:(
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