bastard hackers

[Sonic]

The fact passwords are in plain text would suggest poor security. Even with a database dump of the forums here, I cannot get access to plain text passwords because simply put, there is none. Your passwords are hash using your username as a salt; very difficult to get the password from that effeciently.

[cheesepuffly]

I kinda get what your saying here, but what do YOU mean by plain text passwords?               

[VSMIT]

An unencrypted list of usernames>passwords for a site.

[Zero Angel]

Have different passwords for everything! ESPECIALLY your email account. That way if he hacks the password for your myspace account it wont be any use to him if he tries to hack your email account.

I have about 7 different common passwords that I have stored in my head (over the course of several years). And I might use them for 30 different things, and in some cases use variations of them (like if one of my favorite passwords was 'damocles', i fudge the word slightly like into 'damocl3s' or 'damocles13' (if 13 was my favorite number) or something like that)

Your email box is the most sacred one so make sure it has a unique password to everything else. And NEVER put your email password into another webpage aside from the one you normally log into it from. That way the hacker cannot crack the password and then use the 'rcover lost password' feature to compromise your other accounts.

[Zero Angel]

Your account is "going to" be hacked?

If you ask me, it sounds like an empty threat.

The kind of people who are capable of hacking myspace are not pathetic stalkers.

If he gets your password at all, it will be through a keylogger, which will not infact get on your machine unless you NEVER do any security stuff on your computer (updates, firewall, antivirus), or if you're really gullible and he tricks you into giving it away.

[TheJamsh]

Ive heard nothing back from whoever it is. I think ZA is right in that its an empty threat, i know hes using a hacked account but given that it seems to be someone he knows he may have known the password or the information neccesary to reset it.

All my passwords have changed except the ones for the BZ forums, mainly because my password is a registration number that no one is ever going to be able to guess.

Im not stupid either, i know what a keylogger is as iver used one before, but nothings getting through to this laptop from myspace. Hopefully no electronic tails lead to BZU now, as the details are all totally different. E-mail address has alwasy been different as well. I think we are safe tbh. Its probably the initial 'oh crap what am i gunna do' that sparked this post.

[cheesepuffly]

An unencrypted list of usernames>passwords for a site.

oooooooooooh, i thought they ment the pass words were just plain text instead of some complicated nonsensical combinaton.