I guess it is time to change my "I don't really care about it password" on a bunch of sites then, and leave it the same on GOM until I'm happy they have cleaned up whatever bug they had that exposed the information, and if someone wants to freeload of my account in the meantime, well, GOM kinda deserve it.
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Pumplekin
United Kingdom50 Posts
I guess it is time to change my "I don't really care about it password" on a bunch of sites then, and leave it the same on GOM until I'm happy they have cleaned up whatever bug they had that exposed the information, and if someone wants to freeload of my account in the meantime, well, GOM kinda deserve it. | ||
werynais
Germany1780 Posts
On August 13 2011 03:52 Hurricane Sponge wrote: This crap is exactly why I prefer finding the 'illegal' user re-streams of the GOM events instead of downloading their precious little player. Ridiculous that TL bans people for posting streams of the events when GOM has zero countermeasures to protect account information in place. If you have problems with your brain please see your doctor! | ||
RenardDesMers
France76 Posts
The exploit might be still active, that could be why they don't want to communicate about it If it's not, every minute they wait is a minute a hacker can use to access a website with the password he retrieved. | ||
Nerski
United States1095 Posts
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Wipples
Canada269 Posts
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rasnj
United States1959 Posts
On August 13 2011 03:56 adbrl wrote: Anyone knows when exactly GomTV was hacked, since i changed my PW yesterday to something i never used before, so hopefully it was after this. I can't believe after everything happening at the moment regarding hacking etc. companies still store passwords in plain text...this should really be illegal by now! I doubt it's possible to confirm when this first happened. Even if the ones who publicized this did it recently others may have downloaded the whole db months ago and just be waiting for a buyer (to spam mails for instance which is likely the most real risk). | ||
LegionUK
United Kingdom11 Posts
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Redmark
Canada2129 Posts
On August 13 2011 04:00 LegionUK wrote: I've never trusted things like Keep Pass, would people actually recommend it? Rich recommended it before. | ||
Baarn
United States2702 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
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LegionUK
United Kingdom11 Posts
Yeah I saw that, just wondered if anyone else has any experience using it though. | ||
Fionn
United States23455 Posts
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Hurricane Sponge
868 Posts
On August 13 2011 03:56 JinDesu wrote: Of course. You knew that GOM had zero countermeasures in place before this so that is exactly why you watch illegal restreams. Brilliant argument here. I had my suspicions, and it looks like I was right. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT all out to get me. | ||
mav451
United States1596 Posts
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ChowChillaCharlie
Sweden677 Posts
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Infinity Gaming
United States44 Posts
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Assirra
Belgium4169 Posts
On August 13 2011 03:43 Jank wrote: It's really not surprising. I'm working on my computer science bachelors right now and security is barely ever touched upon. A class that covers databases never even bothered telling students to use prepared statements. I know several of my classmates turned in projects that were completely vulnerable to SQL injection. I doubt half of my classmates know what salting a hash means rofl. Seriously? i followed a course CCNA (network) and i don't know how much security got drilled into our heads. It went to the point where at least 1/4th of the whole thing was about all possible security methods. | ||
FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
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Jank
United States308 Posts
On August 13 2011 04:05 Assirra wrote: Seriously? i followed a course CCNA (network) and i don't know how much security got drilled into our heads. It went to the point where at least 1/4th of the whole thing was about all possible security methods. Well a course for a cisco cert is a lot more likely to focus on security. Computer science is more theory and math and less practical shit. The problem is the majority of students graduating with a cs degree will go into software development where they will plague the world with their incompetence. | ||
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