Game over Account pre-jacking

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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2022 18:25    Post subject: Game over Account pre-jacking Reply with quote
https://thehackernews.com/2022/05/learn-how-hackers-can-hijack-your.html

Fun fun fun.

Security as a myth proven to death, I read somewhere one can bury the head in the sand, problem is shortage of sand for all the heads.

One could also argue this article while based in real scenario is up-selling MFA which is also equally defeated by the most persistent bad actors.

The enter the new kid on the block, sim based authentication, also defeated as proven by the gangs of sim swappers who have been captured and many still running business as usual.

Now you, do you believe in unicorns still? Will your firewall save you?

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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 0:01    Post subject: Reply with quote
I do recall receiving a few emails from a couple of sites asking me to verify the account. And I changed my e-mails password SO MANY TIMES even when i made it super complex with 1337 speak i still got them.

I used to login to them and try to shutdown the account. but see this, I think ill just ignore those e-mails from now on. kk

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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 3:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 6:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2022 7:39    Post subject: Reply with quote
Gameman Advanced Kid wrote:
I do recall receiving a few emails from a couple of sites asking me to verify the account. And I changed my e-mails password SO MANY TIMES even when i made it super complex with 1337 speak i still got them.

I used to login to them and try to shutdown the account. but see this, I think ill just ignore those e-mails from now on. kk

For passwords I use my own old trusted script https://github.com/the-j0k3r/batch-101#about---simple-password-generator and wack it on a encrypted USB only plug it in when I need to access some site and copy and paste my passwords when needed exclusively.
I even use it to create my DD-WRT passwords every so often.

Emails I use services that provide alias email accounts which can be used in place of the real email account that is essentially the real email account these emails are proxied to and I never use the main account. These days there are plenty free services that offer this (I dont mean disposable emails btw most of these wont even pass the email blocks for signup on any websites)

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