Got off work to find an email notice that my account email had been changed. My password at logon is dead. And there is a support reply to a ticket that I never filed.
Anyone know who I should contact? I still have forum privs. And I reset my email.
Got off work to find an email notice that my account email had been changed. My password at logon is dead. And there is a support reply to a ticket that I never filed.
Anyone know who I should contact? I still have forum privs. And I reset my email.
Always surprises me how many people say their accounts were TRIBBLE. If your username and password is not common, and more than 3 letters long (Sorry, GOD is not a password, it's a free ticket to your stuff). Use more than basic computer security (i.e. they use and keep a reputable UPDATED anti-virus program, and SEPARATE firewall [that is NOT windows firewall]) Don't install dodgy programs on their computers (or 'crack' the programs they do use), or fall for the more obvious and overt phishing scams then you are not likely to 'get TRIBBLE'.
Let me point out some things here for you.
Cracked programs: If they are good enough to crack them, they are good enough to add code to them to keylogg you. Don't use Cracks/hacks.
User names: Be Unique. if your user name is PhilBert007, you are not being Unique. You are just being a target.
Passwords: God is not a password. InsipidFroggy^962oKoK is a password. Take note of the Upper and Lowercase letters, the special characters as well as the use of numbers. A 3-6 character long password takes the average brute force program about 15 minutes to crack. The more characters you have in your password, the more difficult it will be to crack it until the possibility becomes 'nearly' impossible for someone to crack your password.
User names and Passwords on each website you visit: DO NOT make them the same. make each place you visit, unique so that no two places you have a user name or password on, is the same. That is basic common sense. Use it.
Does this mean you will have a number of different user names and passwords that you have to remember? Yes. Get used to it. This is the Internet. What you do on it can be known by anyone determined to know it. Make it easy for them, and you may lose your life savings, good credit rating, and identity. make it difficult for them and they will likely move on to easier targets unless you have made them mad at you for some reason and that is why they are targeting you in the first place.
Most people will simply dismiss what I have written. But then most people who do, are the very types of people internet scammers, phishers and hackers like. Because they can't be bothered to take simple security precautions.
Fly safe, and I hope at least 'some' of you will take the above advice to heart.
*edit* As passwords go, the safest are ones that are totally random combinations of numbers, letters (upper and lowercase) and special characters, but they are also the most difficult to remember. The example I used above, shows a password type that is fairly easy to remember, isn't likely to be brute forced, and as such is about as secure as most people need to be.
Always surprises me how many people say their accounts were TRIBBLE. If your username and password is not common, and more than 3 letters long (Sorry, GOD is not a password, it's a free ticket to your stuff). Use more than basic computer security (i.e. they use and keep a reputable UPDATED anti-virus program, and SEPARATE firewall [that is NOT windows firewall]) Don't install dodgy programs on their computers (or 'crack' the programs they do use), or fall for the more obvious and overt phishing scams then you are not likely to 'get TRIBBLE'.
Let me point out some things here for you.
Cracked programs: If they are good enough to crack them, they are good enough to add code to them to keylogg you. Don't use Cracks/hacks.
User names: Be Unique. if your user name is PhilBert007, you are not being Unique. You are just being a target.
Passwords: God is not a password. InsipidFroggy^962oKoK is a password. Take note of the Upper and Lowercase letters, the special characters as well as the use of numbers. A 3-6 character long password takes the average brute force program about 15 minutes to crack. The more characters you have in your password, the more difficult it will be to crack it until the possibility becomes 'nearly' impossible for someone to crack your password.
User names and Passwords on each website you visit: DO NOT make them the same. make each place you visit, unique so that no two places you have a user name or password on, is the same. That is basic common sense. Use it.
Does this mean you will have a number of different user names and passwords that you have to remember? Yes. Get used to it. This is the Internet. What you do on it can be known by anyone determined to know it. Make it easy for them, and you may lose your life savings, good credit rating, and identity. make it difficult for them and they will likely move on to easier targets unless you have made them mad at you for some reason and that is why they are targeting you in the first place.
Most people will simply dismiss what I have written. But then most people who do, are the very types of people internet scammers, phishers and hackers like. Because they can't be bothered to take simple security precautions.
Fly safe, and I hope at least 'some' of you will take the above advice to heart.
Wow! Talk about tough love! You should change your Forum Name to DrillSgt....
That's not meant as an insult, btw!
Here is an Interesting video from Defcon 18 highlighting the risks of bad Internet security.
Zoz had his computer stolen, and fortunately was able to hack into it and get enough information of the person who was using it from it to give to the police. Obviously because it was his own computer, it was easier for him, but it is a lesson to learn...
Wow! Talk about tough love! You should change your Forum Name to DrillSgt....
That's not meant as an insult, btw!
In this day and age when someone is willing to wish a violent death and then TRIBBLE of you and your family by wild animals; due to them initially getting upset over a forum post suggeting their technical issue may be on their end rather than on Cryptic's servers... Adequate security is a necessity.
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http://www.atari.com/support/startrekonline#help
also how about
https://www.atari.com/user/register
make a new atari account and seek help from there on out?
immediately!
Let me point out some things here for you.
Cracked programs: If they are good enough to crack them, they are good enough to add code to them to keylogg you. Don't use Cracks/hacks.
User names: Be Unique. if your user name is PhilBert007, you are not being Unique. You are just being a target.
Passwords: God is not a password. InsipidFroggy^962oKoK is a password. Take note of the Upper and Lowercase letters, the special characters as well as the use of numbers. A 3-6 character long password takes the average brute force program about 15 minutes to crack. The more characters you have in your password, the more difficult it will be to crack it until the possibility becomes 'nearly' impossible for someone to crack your password.
User names and Passwords on each website you visit: DO NOT make them the same. make each place you visit, unique so that no two places you have a user name or password on, is the same. That is basic common sense. Use it.
Does this mean you will have a number of different user names and passwords that you have to remember? Yes. Get used to it. This is the Internet. What you do on it can be known by anyone determined to know it. Make it easy for them, and you may lose your life savings, good credit rating, and identity. make it difficult for them and they will likely move on to easier targets unless you have made them mad at you for some reason and that is why they are targeting you in the first place.
Most people will simply dismiss what I have written. But then most people who do, are the very types of people internet scammers, phishers and hackers like. Because they can't be bothered to take simple security precautions.
Fly safe, and I hope at least 'some' of you will take the above advice to heart.
*edit* As passwords go, the safest are ones that are totally random combinations of numbers, letters (upper and lowercase) and special characters, but they are also the most difficult to remember. The example I used above, shows a password type that is fairly easy to remember, isn't likely to be brute forced, and as such is about as secure as most people need to be.
Wow! Talk about tough love! You should change your Forum Name to DrillSgt....
That's not meant as an insult, btw!
do this - as in now. You don't want these people gaining access to more information than needed
Zoz had his computer stolen, and fortunately was able to hack into it and get enough information of the person who was using it from it to give to the police. Obviously because it was his own computer, it was easier for him, but it is a lesson to learn...
Warning: NSFW with some language and some disturbing (although clean) pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4oB28ksiIo&feature=player_embedded
In this day and age when someone is willing to wish a violent death and then TRIBBLE of you and your family by wild animals; due to them initially getting upset over a forum post suggeting their technical issue may be on their end rather than on Cryptic's servers... Adequate security is a necessity.