Re: PSA about hackers

[orangerful]

UGH so apparently I may have panicked and posted that last link without doing enough digging (I blame Tim as he is the one that sent it to me and, as a fellow librarian, I trusted that he checked his sources! NOPE!)

helloautumn linked me to this Snopes post which says this has not been covered by any major news sources and the "source" of the information is a bit sketchy.

BUT she also pointed out that we should all change our passwords every 4 months for safety anyway so if you did change your password, at least know that you are that much more secure than you were yesterday.

Sorry about that!

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Aww, tis all good!! Just amended my own post - but it does give us all a good reminder to change our passwords frequently (and not cheat and use the same ones for a lot of our accounts)!

*HUGS*

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Ah... okay. :P
Just done changing all mine. But I was well overdue for it anyway.

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Oh phew!!

I just finished changing my passwords, so I suppose it had to be done.

[teagues-veil.livejournal.com]

This makes me feel better, since I couldn't figure out how to change my password. LOL

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Oops! I added a disclaimer to my post. I hadn't changed my passwords in forever anyway, so I guess it's good that I got that done. :)

[touchofgr3y.livejournal.com]

Our campus IT had sent out an alert to all campus about the hackers, so it's pretty prevalent. Never hurts that people should change their passwords anyway :p

[snogged.livejournal.com]

Changing passwords. Always a good reminder.

[night-owl-9.livejournal.com]

It's all right. I've been slacking on changing my password for a year now XD

[yourlibrarian]

Although this isn't necessarily helpful for people who work in places where they can install add-ons to their browsers, it can be very helpful for one's personal accounts. My life is so much easier for the use of a password manager, and I have found that just for personal stuff I have at least 35 passworded accounts.

Password managers not only store your passwords but can also generate secure passwords when you need new ones or to rotate old ones.