Hackers and Spammers
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:19 pm
This board and some others are being subject to hacking. I don't yet know if this is an automated bot (and thus not a personal thing) or an individual.
The symptom is that when you arrive at the board you are told you have exceeded the number of log in attempts and must now log in with the added "benefit" of the captcha image. The captcha image at least makes it much harder for a bot, or tedious for a human, even us.
Please make sure you have a "hard" password. letters numbers, upper case, lower case and at least 8 long.
Do not reuse your log in name as the password, that's a easy hack.
love,
Geoff
The symptom is that when you arrive at the board you are told you have exceeded the number of log in attempts and must now log in with the added "benefit" of the captcha image. The captcha image at least makes it much harder for a bot, or tedious for a human, even us.
Please make sure you have a "hard" password. letters numbers, upper case, lower case and at least 8 long.
Do not reuse your log in name as the password, that's a easy hack.
love,
Geoff