http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2006/08/19/the-purpose-of-passwords/ Aikido, comics, eating well, information security, open source, mountain biking, and caffeine - this blog has everything! Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2006/08/19/the-purpose-of-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-10596 Peter’s Soapbox » Basic World of Warcraft (and PC) Security Tips Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:40:12 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=24#comment-10596 [...] The account was hacked by a brute force attack, so there’s nothing that could be done. While this is certainly possible, it is more likely that the user logged on to a machine that was somehow compromised by spyware which logged the user’s keystrokes and phoned home with them. The best thing you can do in the case of a brute force attack would be to have a strong password, which is 8+ characters long, and contains a mixture of upper case, lower case, numeric, and non-alphanumeric (think “cartoon swearing”) characters. See this post on some ideas for picking a strong password. [...] [...] The account was hacked by a brute force attack, so there’s nothing that could be done. While this is certainly possible, it is more likely that the user logged on to a machine that was somehow compromised by spyware which logged the user’s keystrokes and phoned home with them. The best thing you can do in the case of a brute force attack would be to have a strong password, which is 8+ characters long, and contains a mixture of upper case, lower case, numeric, and non-alphanumeric (think “cartoon swearing”) characters. See this post on some ideas for picking a strong password. [...]

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