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A start of April , what happened.
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Author:  Wizard James [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:24 pm ]
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Ah What a day already, I spent 3-4 hours at around 1am to 5am thinking what to do for April fools day. I give up and went and played World of Warcraft, leaving the forums alone and thinking i should plan something for next year. Well Someone thought my lack of doing anything was not enough.

If you been watching the forum for the past few hours you have noticed it was down. I first got told about this by a phone call by Data, And at first i thought one of the global mods did it for jokes. After looking at the logs I noticed over 50K posts were deleted. From there i disabled the forum and to see if it really was the person who did this. The IP of the person who did this was across the world, thus telling me the nickname i was looking at, got hacked.

Anyways, we reverted to a backup that was made in the morning. And put in some password complexity, and made everyone change there password. Remember, make unique passwords. Tips for passwords


Anyways, Lets hope April fools day is done with.
-WizardJames , Technical Administrator
Author:  Languidiir [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:29 pm ]
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What's up with the new mixed case rule for passwords? It's annoying, and doesn't give a significant amount of extra security to be worth the trouble.
Author:  JJA79 [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:34 pm ]
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Wizard James wrote:
From there i disabled the forum and to see if it really was the person who did this. The IP of the person who did this was across the world, thus telling me the nickname i was looking at, got hacked.

Sorry but i dont understand that part... whats the conflicker virus? or something? i keep seeing news about it?
Author:  Ophanim [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:42 pm ]
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Languidiir wrote:
What's up with the new mixed case rule for passwords? It's annoying, and doesn't give a significant amount of extra security to be worth the trouble.

Wrong. Six character password, if you introduce the possibility of capital letters, the number of possibilities increases by a power of 6.
Author:  mail2345 [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:51 pm ]
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Though it still won't prevent stupid stuff like:

PaSSwOrD
Author:  Falcon X [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:52 pm ]
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God damn James, that was annoying as hell.
Author:  whitty [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:58 pm ]
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Look on the bright side.

We didn't lose half of the forum. This time there was a backup.
Author:  venn177 [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:01 pm ]
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GUYS THOR KINDA SAVED THE FORUMS

READ ON

He forced us to constantly make backups, so if it weren't for him, we wouldn't have this backup.

LOOOOOOVES YOU THOR <33333

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Author:  mail2345 [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:07 pm ]
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Wait, how good was the password cracker?

Seriously, my old pass was as complex as this:

4qR9rd

Does phpBB use the same salt across all fourms?
Does it use MD5/SHA2/ect?
Author:  Wizard James [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:25 pm ]
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mail2345 wrote:
Wait, how good was the password cracker?

Seriously, my old pass was as complex as this:

4qR9rd

Does phpBB use the same salt across all fourms?
Does it use MD5/SHA2/ect?


saltted md5
Author:  Ophanim [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:26 pm ]
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mail2345 wrote:
Though it still won't prevent stupid stuff like:

PaSSwOrD

If they're just using a random chargen then it will. That's a pretty secure password, by the by. There are quite a few possible combinations.
Author:  ProjektTHOR [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:41 pm ]
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P4ssw0rd! would be better.
Author:  mail2345 [ Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:59 pm ]
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There are 256 different combinations of PaSsWoRd.
To an automated script cracking a password, that is almost nothing.
Author:  Ophanim [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:20 am ]
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Yeah but it's not just gonna check the possible combinations of password, dummy.
Author:  ProjektTHOR [ Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:27 am ]
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itc: noob cryptologists.
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