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09-01-2018 02:17PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

People using the same password in different locations is one of the biggest sources of malicious access to accounts. It's definitely an option but if you use a password manager it's a little safer and I find it quite convenient. Last thing you want is one security breach ending up with your email address and one password in a Russian database.

Although I am not a bastion of bulletproof security. About a week ago, funnily enough, my Spotify got hacked into. I only realised because the people who hacked into it gave it away as part of a giveaway. The guy they gave it to didn't realise it was stolen and logged in to discover all my playlists. He then created a playlist of his own and in the description of the playlist he said exactly what had happened and that he never knew it was stolen... Quite a shock for me!

"Jesus this lad listens to a lot of East-17"

Synode · 09-01-2018 02:24PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Last year I left my bag behind me when I was out. I realised that when I picked it up you could find inside:

1) A spare key to my apartment
2) A bill with my home address
3) A photocopy of my ID
4) A printout of a flight boarding pass that showed I would be in San Francisco for the next two weeks.

Luckily that didn't fall into the wrong hands! (I had just moved back to Ireland and was sorting out bank stuff at the time, hence the ridiculous supply of information/goodies I was carrying around with me!)

A bag. Holy ****, are you a woman IBF

prawnsambo · 09-01-2018 02:31PM

Synode wrote: »

A bag. Holy ****, are you a woman IBF

Have you never heard of handbags on a rugby pitch?

Bazzo · 09-01-2018 02:33PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Last year I left my bag behind me when I was out. I realised that when I picked it up you could find inside:

1) A spare key to my apartment
2) A bill with my home address
3) A photocopy of my ID
4) A printout of a flight boarding pass that showed I would be in San Francisco for the next two weeks.

Luckily that didn't fall into the wrong hands! (I had just moved back to Ireland and was sorting out bank stuff at the time, hence the ridiculous supply of information/goodies I was carrying around with me!)

Hang on a sec, do you have a handbag?

Owta Control · 09-01-2018 02:38PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Hang on a sec, do you have a handbag?

"a" ?... He is currently using his winter collection bags, alternating between Orla Kiely and a dinky little Louis Vuitton speedy

irishbucsfan · 09-01-2018 02:56PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Hang on a sec, do you have a handbag?

Not at all! It's just a bag which I carry around with me that I use to hold some commonly used items.

DGRulz · 09-01-2018 02:58PM

Before someone comes along and claims this is nerd discussion ...

https://haveibeenpwned.com will tell you which of you emails/ usernames have been compromised and how.
https://www.lastpass.com is good for the super paranoid among you.

Even substituting letters for numbers and special characters can be compromised with the right tools. I tend to stay away from real words all together and use mnemonics.

irishbucsfan · 09-01-2018 03:26PM

Jon Gruden is about to be made head coach of the Oakland Raiders. He hasn't been a coach for 10 years since being fired.

By all accounts he is to be given a 10 year contract for $100 million. Maybe I should take a decade off.

dregin · 09-01-2018 04:20PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

People using the same password in different locations is one of the biggest sources of malicious access to accounts. It's definitely an option but if you use a password manager it's a little safer and I find it quite convenient. Last thing you want is one security breach ending up with your email address and one password in a Russian database.

Although I am not a bastion of bulletproof security. About a week ago, funnily enough, my Spotify got hacked into. I only realised because the people who hacked into it gave it away as part of a giveaway. The guy they gave it to didn't realise it was stolen and logged in to discover all my playlists. He then created a playlist of his own and in the description of the playlist he said exactly what had happened and that he never knew it was stolen... Quite a shock for me!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/30/lastpass-warns-users-to-exercise-caution-while-it-fixes-major-vulnerability

09-01-2018 04:28PM

The password has to be a variation of one thing........ I've written out every possible password it could be...... I've tried accessing the SAM file but I can't pick up the partition for some reason (I think because its a VM)...... ugh my entire development environment is on that. Would take the guys of a week to get it all set up again.

prawnsambo · 09-01-2018 05:16PM

Deleted User wrote: »

The password has to be a variation of one thing........ I've written out every possible password it could be...... I've tried accessing the SAM file but I can't pick up the partition for some reason (I think because its a VM)...... ugh my entire development environment is on that. Would take the guys of a week to get it all set up again.

I presume you have no other user set up on it...

What's the VM? VMWare or something else?

09-01-2018 05:22PM

prawnsambo wrote: »

I presume you have no other user set up on it...

What's the VM? VMWare or something else?

Nah just a single user. I can't believe I've done this :pac:

Its this: https://virt-manager.org/

dregin · 09-01-2018 05:26PM

Sounds like a good opportunity to configure your dev environment programatically. I'm a fan of ansible.

09-01-2018 05:35PM

dregin wrote: »

Sounds like a good opportunity to configure your dev environment programatically. I'm a fan of ansible.

prawnsambo · 09-01-2018 05:39PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Nah just a single user. I can't believe I've done this :pac:

Its this: https://virt-manager.org/

Well if it allows the VM to boot a virtual CD from an iso, you might be able to use this.

DGRulz · 09-01-2018 05:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Nah just a single user. I can't believe I've done this :pac:

Its this: https://virt-manager.org/

This any use to you? https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-to-recover-kvm-virtual-machine-root-password/

prawnsambo · 09-01-2018 06:01PM

DGRulz wrote: »

This any use to you? https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/how-to-recover-kvm-virtual-machine-root-password/

I think his VM is a Windows one. He mentioned the SAM file. And that's what he's forgotten the password to.

09-01-2018 06:04PM

Cheers lads. I tried those yokes yeah. Its a windows 7 vm. For some reason I can't see the windows partition when I attempt to boot from one of those ISO's. I never realised how easy it is to crack windows passwords using them.

I guess the windows partition doesn't properly exist until the vm is booted up? I'm having one of those days where I'm questioning my entire career path

prawnsambo · 09-01-2018 06:16PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Cheers lads. I tried those yokes yeah. Its a windows 7 vm. For some reason I can't see the windows partition when I attempt to boot from one of those ISO's. I never realised how easy it is to crack windows passwords using them.

I guess the windows partition doesn't properly exist until the vm is booted up? I'm having one of those days where I'm questioning my entire career path

It's an odd one alright. Normally the partitions are identified in Windows 7 during the boot process from the BCD. Which is located in the boot folder on the boot partition. Kind of a chicken and egg situation.

Can you boot the VM in a different hypervisor that may allow a bit more control? VMWare seems to be able to use those kinds of tools to recover windows passwords.

Edit: Apparently you can convert the KVM qcow2 file to a vmdk using the VMWare standalone converter on some sort of Linux distro. I think.
Edit again: This shouldn't be necessary. That tool I linked works on KVM as well.

So the issue is that you don't seem to be booting your OS before you load the iso.

mfceiling · 09-01-2018 06:36PM

*reads last 20 posts*

*hasn't a clue what's being said*

*slips back out of thread again*

09-01-2018 06:48PM

Cheers I'll give that a lash. And I only came here to vent :pac:

mfceiling · 09-01-2018 08:10PM

On a brighter note I won a crate of beer today!!

Or as my smart arse work mate said "a years supply for you".

stephen_n · 09-01-2018 08:12PM

mfceiling wrote: »

On a brighter note I won a crate of beer today!!

Or as my smart arse work mate said "a years supply for you".

Do they call you buzz lightbeer?

DGRulz · 09-01-2018 11:37PM

So after reading the last few pages, I feel like I have to ask how many in the rugby boards community are software engineers?

Stheno · 09-01-2018 11:44PM

DGRulz wrote: »

So after reading the last few pages, I feel like I have to ask how many in the rugby boards community are software engineers?

A fair few regular posters are in IT

10-01-2018 11:52AM

Any joy yet Partyforest?

prawnsambo · 10-01-2018 11:58AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Any joy yet Partyforest?

Basically a long password is harder to crack. Something we've known for ever. :rolleyes:

Bazzo · 10-01-2018 12:00PM

Forgive my ignorance but wouldn't a dictionary attack make those types of passwords much more easily cracked?

10-01-2018 12:04PM

Bazzo wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance but wouldn't a dictionary attack make those types of passwords much more easily cracked?

irishbucsfan · 10-01-2018 12:11PM

prawnsambo wrote: »

Basically a long password is harder to crack. Something we've known for ever. :rolleyes:

Firstly it's an old cartoon.

And secondly, we've known it forever but the people who design schemas and validation just totally ignore it and put nonsense requirements on their passwords, so the more it's pointed out the better.

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