Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 How to Protect your Accounts 99% Of accounts that are "Hacked" are not hacked using special programs. Infact most programs used are programs that try to guess your password. These programs use 3 different methods of guessing your account password. Dictionary Attack which looks at a long list of commonly used passwords and trys them all in a matter of hours. Brute Force Attack this generates every combination of letter and number combinations but takes a while longer than Dictionary Attack. Rainbow table attack it takes the most time generating every combination of symbols, numbers and letters. Luckely there are ways to protect yourself from such attacks. Remember that no password is uncrackable but you can stall the time needed to crack it by centuries by doing the following. Make sure that you use a combination of lower and upper case letters. Add a few numbers in between the letters to confuse the programs that are searching for your password. Symbols are great for adding because they are almost undetectable. Example: 5Ta6@y7u (Warning: Do not use this as it is a open example.) Also, the length of your password makes a big difference. I recommend 8+ Characters to be used. Following this guide your accounts will be safe and you will never have to worry about your account being compromised. For more information on how you can protect yourselves you may message me anytime. Link to comment
Dannnno Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I never knew that, thanks! There's also a huge having problem in Pokemmo so this is really useful! Orangeslash, iSmashbro, Bimps1002 and 1 other 4 Link to comment
TheGloriousWalrus Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 i knew all of that, still cant be bothered to do so JeanMarc and Nudeman 2 Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 I never knew that, thanks! There's also a huge having problem in Pokemmo so this is really useful! Thanks, I'm glad it helped. Link to comment
Rigamorty Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 this isn't a problem if no one ever finds out your account name. Link to comment
Orangeslash Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Tl;Dr- Don't give your password out. Link to comment
fredrichnietze Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 this should probably be moved to guides, but great job making this ^_^ and having your account name and character name different would also help keep from being hacked. also i suggest 30+ characters in your password but im paranoid. Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 this isn't a problem if no one ever finds out your account name. This is more of a problem than you would think. I have years of experience on this topic and have studied and tested many methods. And this problem occurs over 100k times a day. Security is everything on the internet. Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 this should probably be moved to guides, but great job making this ^_^ and having your account name and character name different would also help keep from being hacked. also i suggest 30+ characters in your password but im paranoid. I would prefer it stayed in general because important things in the guides section tend to get pushed to the bottom when a "How to get shiny" topic appears. And you can do the different names thing for pokemmo but its good to have maximum security rather than just a different name. And this guide can be used for varius places like gmail and facebook which as some of you may know thousands of accounts were recently compromised using the methods I listed. Link to comment
Rigamorty Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 This is more of a problem than you would think. I have years of experience on this topic and have studied and tested many methods. And this problem occurs over 100k times a day. Security is everything on the internet. alright, you have fun trying to not only get my not that complicated password, but my username as well (no, it isn't just Rigamorty) with some random character generator. it would take the amount of time it takes to find the correct username multiplied by the time it would take to get the right password. it seems almost impossible to get the correct number of both. having to go through randomly generated characters to make one username, then every single possible password combination, then go on to the next random username. so as long as you aren't retarded and actually make your login username not obvious/known, along with your password, you should be fine, and there isn't as much of a need for some convoluted password that you won't be able to remember. I'm not trying to be a dick and say you're wrong, password security is definitely important and all, but i'm just saying having a somewhat simple username + password is better than having a known username and a really complicated password. Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 alright, you have fun trying to not only get my not that complicated password, but my username as well (no, it isn't just Rigamorty) with some random character generator. it would take the amount of time it takes to find the correct username multiplied by the time it would take to get the right password. it seems almost impossible to get the correct number of both. having to go through randomly generated characters to make one username, then every single possible password combination, then go on to the next random username. so as long as you aren't retarded and actually make your login username not obvious/known, along with your password, you should be fine, and there isn't as much of a need for some convoluted password that you won't be able to remember. I'm not trying to be a dick and say you're wrong, password security is definitely important and all, but i'm just saying having a somewhat simple username + password is better than having a known username and a really complicated password. Refer to what I just said before you posted this. Link to comment
guyverone Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 this should probably be moved to guides, but great job making this ^_^ and having your account name and character name different would also help keep from being hacked. also i suggest 30+ characters in your password but im paranoid. This should be deleted, because honestly.......besides hexor, who cares about hacking accounts on this game? lol Link to comment
fredrichnietze Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I'm not trying to be a dick and say you're wrong, password security is definitely important and all, but i'm just saying having a somewhat simple username + password is better than having a known username and a really complicated password. Burnsalan19 1 Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 This should be deleted, because honestly.......besides hexor, who cares about hacking accounts on this game? lol Refer to what I posted at 03:07PM Link to comment
Rigamorty Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I'm not trying to be a dick and say you're wrong, password security is definitely important and all, but i'm just saying having a somewhat simple username + password is better than having a known username and a really complicated password. because forgetting a password is more likely if it's something random as fuck and gives you a pretty decent chance at being locked out of your account. Link to comment
Telf Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 How to Protect your Accounts Example: 5Ta6@yu that was my password tho now i need to change it hold on PinkWings, BeebBeebImaJeep, flavajabari and 2 others 5 Link to comment
Burnsalan19 Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 Wow, I didn't know posting something helpful would gather so much negative feedback. If you feel you are an exception to being targeted by Hackers then don't post here. Its too easy. I'm making this because when I join a community that I want to see standing forever I try to use my knowledge to help protect it. So again I say, if you feel it is impossible and you feel that you are being taken out of a list because you feel you cannot be hacked, then don't post here because my post is here to stay and so is my message. Marsus, Phatman and kevpr 3 Link to comment
fredrichnietze Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Wow, I didn't know posting something helpful would gather so much negative feedback. If you feel you are an exception to being targeted by Hackers then don't post here. Its too easy. I'm making this because when I join a community that I want to see standing forever I try to use my knowledge to help protect it. So again I say, if you feel it is impossible and you feel that you are being taken out of a list because you feel you cannot be hacked, then don't post here because my post is here to stay and so is my message. dont let it get to you, everything anyone does has a few people who think it's a bad idea. filter out everything but the legit concerns and ask yourself does this change anything? and dont let them bother you. Link to comment
GecerliHedef Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Tl;Dr- Don't give your password out. this should be replaced to main post and delete other things. Link to comment
axx Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 alright, you have fun trying to not only get my not that complicated password, but my username as well (no, it isn't just Rigamorty) with some random character generator. it would take the amount of time it takes to find the correct username multiplied by the time it would take to get the right password. it seems almost impossible to get the correct number of both. having to go through randomly generated characters to make one username, then every single possible password combination, then go on to the next random username. iirc there is also a time cooldown in the client if you fail your password several times Link to comment
iSmashbro Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 The only one that would even work is a brute force. The only real way you can 'protect your account' is using a longer password, seeing as a 10 digit password could take days to crack. Link to comment
fredrichnietze Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 The only one that would even work is a brute force. The only real way you can 'protect your account' is using a longer password, seeing as a 10 digit password could take days to crack. nah it wouldnt, a 30 digit password however....... Link to comment
iSmashbro Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 nah it wouldnt, a 30 digit password however....... I forgot that the PokeMMO client doesn't penalize you for guessing a password wrong too many times. Never safe. Link to comment
JWingWangWong Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 My passwords are as strong as my bitcoin wallet; strong, long and random. Link to comment
Dougington Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Hack me, I dare you! [spoiler]Enjoy my 35k and 7 lower then low caliber comps.[/spoiler] Link to comment
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