Random ChaosActually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
I'm monitoring the DB to try and make sure that these get killed quickly after being sent; waiting on Biggles or Sanfam to ban the 29 user accounts that appear to have been hacked.
Scroll, scroll, scroll your wheel, slightly down the screen
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, page is like Yangtze
(as in Chang Jiang, "long river")
Biggles<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
Some of the templates need to be updated after the upgrade. I'll get on to it soon. Until then, enjoy the fact that the forums still work at all. :)
I've reset the passwords on all the accounts that were confirmed to be sending out spam PMs. If that doesn't work, those accounts will be banned. If anyone can't access their account now, let me know.
[QUOTE=Stingray;174973]Hackers aren't particularly smart...[/QUOTE]Wrong, hackers have to be quite smart to be able to do what they're doing...
It's the crackers which are stupid assh***s.
[QUOTE=E.T;174977]Wrong, hackers have to be quite smart to be able to do what they're doing...
It's the crackers which are stupid assh***s.[/QUOTE]
Semantics... even hackers get by security systems by banking on people's ignorance and laziness.
The lack of common sense in the public does not prove the presence of intelligence of a select few just because they know something more that the rest of us don't.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. How many write down passwords or pin codes in places that are easy to find and/or guess?
And if you go back and read what I wrote, I didn't say they were stupid, you are quoting me out of context. :)
Just to quote wiki because I'm to lazy to write ti myself.
[QUOTE]In popular usage and in the media, it most often refers to computer intruders or criminals, with associated pejorative connotations. In the computing community, the primary meaning is a complimentary description for a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert.[/QUOTE]
[quote=Darth Caligula, via IRC]Quote (4): DarthCaligula: I might have done it last night. I would have the default password
astrom0g: "password"?
astrom0g: well, we can check
*DarthCaligula has quit (Nick collision from services.)
astrom0g: yep, his password is "password"[/quote]
[QUOTE=Stingray;174978]Semantics... even hackers get by security systems by banking on people's ignorance and laziness.
The lack of common sense in the public does not prove the presence of intelligence of a select few just because they know something more that the rest of us don't.
[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the story of the security company that tested some bank employees by leaving random jump drives in the parking lot, each having a program that reported when they were plugged into one of the bank's computer. Something like 75% of the drives were plugged into the banks internal computers....
Comments
:rolleyes:
And I got one from Baz too. Thanks to the kindly administrators I never had to read it. :D
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, page is like Yangtze
(as in Chang Jiang, "long river")
I've reset the passwords on all the accounts that were confirmed to be sending out spam PMs. If that doesn't work, those accounts will be banned. If anyone can't access their account now, let me know.
Peekaboo? :D
:p
Is that even possible? Sounds like a keyboard failure, press F1 to continue loop. :D
Hackers aren't particularly smart... they are just not as silly as the rest of us.
It's the crackers which are stupid assh***s.
It's the crackers which are stupid assh***s.[/QUOTE]
Semantics... even hackers get by security systems by banking on people's ignorance and laziness.
The lack of common sense in the public does not prove the presence of intelligence of a select few just because they know something more that the rest of us don't.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. How many write down passwords or pin codes in places that are easy to find and/or guess?
And if you go back and read what I wrote, I didn't say they were stupid, you are quoting me out of context. :)
[QUOTE]In popular usage and in the media, it most often refers to computer intruders or criminals, with associated pejorative connotations. In the computing community, the primary meaning is a complimentary description for a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert.[/QUOTE]
So depends on what defenition of hacker you use.
astrom0g: "password"?
astrom0g: well, we can check
*DarthCaligula has quit (Nick collision from services.)
astrom0g: yep, his password is "password"[/quote]
Relevant.
Worf
Uh, I need to go check my luggage.
The lack of common sense in the public does not prove the presence of intelligence of a select few just because they know something more that the rest of us don't.
[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the story of the security company that tested some bank employees by leaving random jump drives in the parking lot, each having a program that reported when they were plugged into one of the bank's computer. Something like 75% of the drives were plugged into the banks internal computers....
Jake