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Still saying Server Not Found for me.
Still saying Server Not Found for me.
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An update:
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It should be working for nearly everyone by now. DNS takes a while to propagate for everyone...
We hope so too! Chris has been changing all his passwords, and even forgetting them. So it should be fairly difficult for it to happen again, if not impossible.
Make sure your passwords are safe, especially to your email account where password resetting emails will get sent to. That's basically how all of this started.
Much respect to all of the MyBB staff who have really come together over the last few days (bar myself, as I've been busy with family things) to get things back and running as quickly as possible.
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That's why it's good to have a password manager. I personally like Roboform, but that keeps me from forgetting passwords and I can set the passwords to whatever length with whatever characters I want (lower case, upper case, numbers, and symbols). It would take years to crack my passwords. The only way to get into my accounts would be to social engineer the support staff for any of the services I use.
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Merged your thread with the existing discussion. No need for two threads on the same line of discussion.
I've spent most of today going over a lot of my accounts which matter most to me and changing the security settings/passwords. One of the security questions made absolutely no sense to me any more, the question was simply "Kingston?" and the answer was about 8 characters long, but I have no idea what it would have been. Probably something that made sense to a 16 year old version of me...
I should probably do this every year or so just in case it happens again.
I've spent most of today going over a lot of my accounts which matter most to me and changing the security settings/passwords. One of the security questions made absolutely no sense to me any more, the question was simply "Kingston?" and the answer was about 8 characters long, but I have no idea what it would have been. Probably something that made sense to a 16 year old version of me...
I should probably do this every year or so just in case it happens again.
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I don't like security questions. Either they offer a range of questions that allow more than one answer for me or they have one answer only that anybody who knows me for ten minutes can answer correctly...
And if I have to think of a question myself it isn't much better honestly ^^
And if I have to think of a question myself it isn't much better honestly ^^
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I agree some of the default questions aren't the greatest, and with social networks being the norm for everyone, things like workplace, birthplace, first occupation or car registration can probably all be found if you don't set your security properly on Facebook/Google+/etc.
That said, they get you thinking about other similar questions that may have a more obscure answer (but not for you). Like the answer to my question is something that not even my parents would know. It surprised me that I remembered even.
In any case, they're a last resort. I shouldn't forget my password. May take a few seconds to figure it out but I should be able to work it out.
That said, they get you thinking about other similar questions that may have a more obscure answer (but not for you). Like the answer to my question is something that not even my parents would know. It surprised me that I remembered even.
In any case, they're a last resort. I shouldn't forget my password. May take a few seconds to figure it out but I should be able to work it out.
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I agree some of the default questions aren't the greatest, and with social networks being the norm for everyone, things like workplace, birthplace, first occupation or car registration can probably all be found if you don't set your security properly on Facebook/Google+/etc.
That said, they get you thinking about other similar questions that may have a more obscure answer (but not for you). Like the answer to my question is something that not even my parents would know. It surprised me that I remembered even.
In any case, they're a last resort. I shouldn't forget my password. May take a few seconds to figure it out but I should be able to work it out.
I agree, the security question is only the last part of the "defense".
I remember the lection we received on passwords and such in the army. Don't use a word, use a sentence, then use on the first letter of every word for example and things like that.
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I didn't actually know the relation of the two until I Googled it just then. Yeah, my geography/general knowledge skills are terrible...
I actually think Kingston in my question had some relation to a Kingston branded USB drive I had. But still, I have no idea what it could have been. Anyway...
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Lol.
Now, ontopic, still many links to the forum are down. Everytime I search for something on google about Mybb I find down threads. I wonder if it has something to do with the hack.
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The MyBB forum is up. You may be clicking on links to the archive, whose scheme changed in MyBB 1.6.8.