Re: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Hardy
ay, January 14, 2013 10:44 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety > > > > a lot of the password problem has to do with the power of modern systems. > my > machine here cn crack most passwords within 6 hours for m

RE: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-16 Thread Joe
Behalf Of Eric Oyen Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:44 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety a lot of the password problem has to do with the power of modern systems. my machine here cn crack most passwords within 6 hours for most

Re: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-14 Thread Eric Oyen
a lot of the password problem has to do with the power of modern systems. my machine here cn crack most passwords within 6 hours for most passwords of 12 ro 20 characters. A big part of this capability has to do with a rainbow dictionary file. I spent about 5 days letting a password generator

RE: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-14 Thread Joe
Also turn on two-step verification.--Joe From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 11:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety Hi List, I have see

Re: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-14 Thread Alan Paganelli
Um, any password can be hacked. No matter how careful you are and all that, given enough time, password can be hacked. I had a password of 14 spaces with both upper and lower case letters etc as you described and changed it every other month and yet I still got hacked. They aren't using tria

RE: SPAM email, hacked email accounts and password safety

2013-01-14 Thread Exracer
Though this info is useful you have forgotten about the simple malware that may or may not be on her computer. It also can cause mass Email messages to be sent out if the address of the group is in her address book. All it takes is a simple bit of malware to do what you have seen here. It doesn't h