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[DadSmith]

Wonderful, an AI can crack the most common passwords almost instantly

It might be time to change your password.

www.pcgamer.com

My passwords are around 14 characters long upper and lower case letters, Numbers and symbols.
They also are all random and do not have anything to do with my life.
So I'm confident it won't Crack my passwords for a least 5 minutes....

So now what? Once this gets into the wrong hands if it hasn't already not much will be safe.

 

[Ingomike]

This is almost as dumb as screwing around with deadly viruses…

“The passwords were taken from the RockYou dataset (which included passwords for Myspace and Facebook), which was hacked back in 2009. So it's training the AI with real passwords people have used, therefore "improving the quality of predicted passwords."

They are hell bent to create The Terminator…

 

[DadSmith]

Bullard plan would phase out and replace federal funding and control over K-12 education | Oklahoma Senate

OKLAHOMA CITY – Legislation has been filed to cut and replace financial ties and control of the federal government over common education in Oklahoma. Sen.

oksenate.gov

 

[KellyinAvon]

They are hell bent to create The Terminator…

^^This!!^^

 

[WebSnyper]

Passwordless with an authentication app/key, etc.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Passwordless with an authentication app/key, etc.

Yep. MFA is the only way now. And even with some methods like text they can spoof your sim card to get copies of your texts. So thats not even foolproof. (gotta use an app or OTP key)

 

[WebSnyper]

Yep. MFA is the only way now. And even with some methods like text they can spoof your sim card to get copies of your texts. So thats not even foolproof. (gotta use an app or OTP key)

Well even more than password with MFA, actually doing away with the use of the password, so you are not even inputting it. I'm passwordless at work and on some of my personal accounts. More should offer it.

 

[DadSmith]

Jeep found submerged in a lake was being dragged out when a live woman was discovered inside. She had been missing for 2 days.

A missing woman was found alive inside a car that was submerged in a lake by the crew hired to drag the car out onto land.The Marion County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post that the woman had been missing since Wednesday but was rescued from the submerged car on Friday, two days later. A...

www.theblaze.com

 

[DadSmith]

Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores

Today we have made a difficult decision - to close four of our stores in Chicago. The decision to close a store is never easy. The impact is greater than just closing a building. It affects people – people who work in, shop in, and live near our stores – and we never take that lightly. Treating…

corporate.walmart.com

 

[Ingomike]

Yep. MFA is the only way now. And even with some methods like text they can spoof your sim card to get copies of your texts. So thats not even foolproof. (gotta use an app or OTP key)

If they want it that bad just let ‘em have it.

This whole password/hacking thing is getting beyond ridiculous…

 

[Ingomike]

If they want it that bad just let ‘em have it.

This whole password/hacking thing is getting beyond ridiculous…

Just maybe we need to stop this whole tech of tech sake. Go to the bank to do your business, like as for hundreds of years before...

 

[WebSnyper]

Just maybe we need to stop this whole tech of tech sake. Go to the bank to do your business, like as for hundreds of years before...

The horse is out of the barn on that, and we won't be going back. There's too much money being made.

But how about possibly making banks and others (especially credit reporting agencies, etc) accountable for when they allow data breaches to happen due to negligence.

Especially credit reporting agencies. They don't care about us because we are not their customers, we are their product. 99.9% of these breaches are avoidable. Real damages need to be assessed.

Also, banks, and credit reporting agencies and others need to get onboard with offering better security. Non SMS based MFA would be a great first step, and hey, how about being able to lock and unlock your credit report at will in a secure app vs having to fill out forms manually, and contact them, or pay them for the ability to even do so depending on what state you are in. But again, we're not their customer, we're their product.

The bad actors are not going to ramp down their use of technology. Fiduciaries and others should not either.

Banking still only offering SMS MFA is a complete joke.

Phone companies easily allowing porting of numbers by bad actors , when they could simply use some better practices to identify you, would be a great thing as well.

Don't even get me started on a static identification number used by the govt for you for life...

And passwords are garbage. No amount of complexity makes the outdated concept of a password any better.

 

[DadSmith]

ChatGPT is now writing college essays, and higher ed has a big problem

Is higher learning doomed?

www.techradar.com

 

[DadSmith]

Red alert for mag-9 mega-earthquake off Pacific coast as crack discovered

EXPERTS are on high alert amid fears a crack at the bottom of the ocean could trigger an apocalyptic earthquake. The hole, just 50 miles off the coast of the US state of Oregon, is spewing hot liqu…

www.thesun.ie

Mega-earthquake fears as experts puzzle over 'crack' in 600-mile US fault line

Experts have predicted an earthquake could erupt, causing devastation to the Pacific Northwest area of the US after a crack was discovered in a 600-mile long fault line

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[indyblue]

And passwords are garbage. No amount of complexity makes the outdated concept of a password any better.

Not to mention the AI that will be used to crack Passwords a faster..

I wonder how long it will be before commercial quantum computers will be powerful enough to crack it all? I think, however long it is, it isn’t long enough.

 

[rhamersley]

Bomb Threats Affect Dozens of School Districts

Friday classes for somewhere between 35 and 40 school districts in Central Indiana have been impacted by bomb threats.

wibc.com

 

[DadSmith]

DEA Reports Widespread Threat of Fentanyl Mixed with Xylazine | DEA.gov

www.dea.gov

Looks like illegal drug use is deadlier than Semiautomatic firearms.

Something news won't admit.

 

[BugI02]

Wonderful, an AI can crack the most common passwords almost instantly

It might be time to change your password.

www.pcgamer.com

My passwords are around 14 characters long upper and lower case letters, Numbers and symbols.
They also are all random and do not have anything to do with my life.
So I'm confident it won't Crack my passwords for a least 5 minutes....

So now what? Once this gets into the wrong hands if it hasn't already not much will be safe.

Gray man. Don't be interesting enough that those kinds of tools would be deployed against you

 

[MommaBean18]

The horse is out of the barn on that, and we won't be going back. There's too much money being made.

But how about possibly making banks and others (especially credit reporting agencies, etc) accountable for when they allow data breaches to happen due to negligence.

Especially credit reporting agencies. They don't care about us because we are not their customers, we are their product. 99.9% of these breaches are avoidable. Real damages need to be assessed.

Also, banks, and credit reporting agencies and others need to get onboard with offering better security. Non SMS based MFA would be a great first step, and hey, how about being able to lock and unlock your credit report at will in a secure app vs having to fill out forms manually, and contact them, or pay them for the ability to even do so depending on what state you are in. But again, we're not their customer, we're their product.

The bad actors are not going to ramp down their use of technology. Fiduciaries and others should not either.

Banking still only offering SMS MFA is a complete joke.

Phone companies easily allowing porting of numbers by bad actors , when they could simply use some better practices to identify you, would be a great thing as well.

Don't even get me started on a static identification number used by the govt for you for life...

And passwords are garbage. No amount of complexity makes the outdated concept of a password any better.

JJ

 

[MommaBean18]

That was a lot of great information that a lot of us “non-techies” everyday ppl don’t even realize. Thanks for pointing it out. Definitely makes you think more about how secure you are online.