Empty It Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Not very petty but if your dog doesn't have good recall then don't let it off lead in public places, especially if you see a husky being walked on two leads and your dog has a tendency to go up to other dogs, luckily mines isn't a savage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: poor man's Marmalade Big group found. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) Services which have a limit on how long/complex a password can be. Even more embarrassing when it's a company in the IT sector, in this case Virgin who have a limit of 10 characters A Register reader has raised concerns over UK ISP Virgin Media's password policies after discovering he couldn't set a password longer than 10 characters or one that includes non-alphanumeric characters. Our reader Nick told us he was facing repeated attempts to take control of an @virgin.net email account he owns – adding that the company's password policy left him vulnerable to what he described as a sustained brute-forcing attack. "I am having a running battle with a hacker who is able to crack a 10-character password used for Virgin or Virginmedia email in less than a day," Nick complained, saying the attacker was setting up auto-forward rules to divert his emails as well as being able to guess newly reset passwords within a day. He added that Virgin's password policy enforced weak-by-design choices on him which made his apparent attacker's efforts easier: the ISP's email account policy wouldn't allow him to set a password longer than 10 characters; nor would it allow him to add two-factor authentication (2FA); the first character had to be a letter; and non-alphanumeric characters weren't allowed. A spokesperson for the Liberty Global-owned telco told The Register: "Ensuring customer data is secure is of utmost importance to us and we continually invest in our security systems to keep our customers safe online. Our login process requires customers to use unique passwords using a variety of up to 10 characters, enhanced by additional technical controls and anti-fraud measures which defend against unauthorised login attempts. Our engineers regularly update our systems to improve security, with further improvements due to be implemented in the near future." However, on its website we note that the company says users should "aim for 8 to 12 characters" and use "symbols… or special characters." Nick is not alone in wondering what Virgin's up to with email account passwords. Last year someone posted on their customer support forum asking for help setting a password that would pass Virgin's systems, to be told: "We do advise to use a password between 6-10 characters long, including at least 1 number, 1 capital letter, 1 lower case letter and ensuring that it isn't your surname or first name." Another customer wondered why he was restricted to "maximum of 10 alpha numeric characters lower or upper case", adding: "Why are no special characters and longer than 10 alpha numeric passqwords allowed?" [sic] Similarly, a Redditor posted a thread titled "It's 2021 and VirginMedia only allows password 8-10 characters long, letters and numbers only" complete with a screenshot of the password page explaining the requirements. Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, an offshoot of GCHQ, has this advice about email account passwords: Machine-generated passwords eliminate those passwords that would be simple for an attacker to guess. They require little effort from the user to create, and can produce passwords that are random and unique. However, most machine-generated passwords are very difficult for people to remember. For this reason, the NCSC recommend that they should be used with a password manager. Machine-generated passwords in this day and age all come with options to set non-alphanumeric characters and in lengths of greater than 10 characters – none of which, it appears, would pass Virgin Media's requirements. Back in 2015, Virgin had to shift itself off Gmail for consumer email accounts after the adtech monolith dropped support for ISP accounts. It's had problems in the past with security as well; in 2020, 900,000 customers' records were dumped online thanks to a poorly secured database. ® Edited April 7, 2022 by GNU_Linux 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 3 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: Have you heard Absolute 00s? Pretty sure the Russians are pumping it out of their tanks in Ukraine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Leith Green said: Fuckin stupid people stating things as "facts" when they know absolutely f**k all about it. A daft lassie on BBC Radio Scotland who is called "Storm" pontificating in a piece about kids names. She said "names influence how you will be in life, for example when you meet a Storm you just know she wont be an introvert" Horseshit, of course, but not even questioned by the spoon hosting the show............... She's got a point. When I saw the name "Storm", I assumed she'd be a self-obsessed c**t, and whaddaya know. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonytoons Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 She's got a point. When I saw the name "Storm", I assumed she'd be a self-obsessed c**t, and whaddaya know.On the flip side I met someone called Shona Hymen...she didn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 41 minutes ago, Loonytoons said: On the flip side I met someone called Shona Hymen...she didn't. Well, not to you 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 I knew of a guy called P. Ness. And he was. Storm is a wid. And she ended up presenting the weather. Whereas my parents didn't christen me Underappreciated Dogsbody so I don't know where I went wrong. Some Nigerians believe in the name thing which is why they give their kids names that are supposed to give them good fortune in life like the ex-President Goodluck Johnathon. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 After avoiding it for over 2 years some cun’t has passed on their Covid to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunning1874 Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Where spelling is concerned I try to be less of a pedant these days. If you understand what someone is getting at there's no need to be a dick about it. However this happens so often on P&B I have to say: his name is Derek McInnes. Not McInness, McIness, or McInnis. Please stop it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Eednud said: After avoiding it for over 2 years some cun’t has passed on their Covid to me. That happened to me last week. Really fucking annoying as I have no symptoms (had 24 hours of a sore throat) and only even tested myself as got pinged off Test and Trace. Still testing positive, and its getting really, really boring now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 13 hours ago, tamthebam said: I knew of a guy called P. Ness. And he was. Storm is a wid. And she ended up presenting the weather. Whereas my parents didn't christen me Underappreciated Dogsbody so I don't know where I went wrong. Some Nigerians believe in the name thing which is why they give their kids names that are supposed to give them good fortune in life like the ex-President Goodluck Johnathon. That's a terrible photo. She looks like someone drew a face on a ball in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 30 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: That's a terrible photo. She looks like someone drew a face on a ball in it. A ball got her in trouble. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Leith Green said: That happened to me last week. Really fucking annoying as I have no symptoms (had 24 hours of a sore throat) and only even tested myself as got pinged off Test and Trace. Still testing positive, and its getting really, really boring now. Got a flu shot yesterday and thought I was having a reaction to it so took RAT. Result 7 days isolation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 "ongoing at the moment" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 On 07/04/2022 at 23:07, tamthebam said: I knew of a guy called P. Ness. And he was. Storm is a wid. And she ended up presenting the weather. Whereas my parents didn't christen me Underappreciated Dogsbody so I don't know where I went wrong. Some Nigerians believe in the name thing which is why they give their kids names that are supposed to give them good fortune in life like the ex-President Goodluck Johnathon. Or "I am a Nigerian Prince who want to transfer $5,000,000 to your personal account". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 "at this moment in time" Do you mean "now"? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 Someone left a dog poo bag on top of my general waste bin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackdaybob Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, throbber said: Someone left a dog poo bag on top of my general waste bin. They could have least have put it in the bin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, Trackdaybob said: They could have least have put it in the bin. Exactly - I’m not sure if it was someone trying to be extra malicious or if they were doing it out of courtesy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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