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Many people are afraid due to the spread of hacking into many accounts and some of them consider that the security of those accounts are very weak ( especially after their accounts are hacked) and  they bear all the burdens on the forum.

In my opinion, the problem is not the weakness of security, but in fact, it is your misbehaviors  that lead to your accounts ( users) being hacked.

When your account is well secured , the hacker cannot  get your password. So it's very essential to protect your account through two simple steps  :
1- Choosing a powerful password.
2- Secure your Email ( Strong password, Step verification ( by a  phone number) ,Encrypt it through a special key).

Regarding the strong password here are my suggestion:

1) Use combination of letters, numbers and special characters . There are hackers who brute force common passwords easily with the help of software like burp suite.

2) Keep changing the password at regular intervals.

I like to type out a random set of numbers and letters and save them to a notepad. It's the best defense against brute force attacks. The bitcointalk hack that happened in 2015 wouldn't have been a problem for anyone if their passwords were good because all the passwords needed to be bruteforced.

I am curious to know if the forum has some protection against brute force attacks now or not. It is very much needed to keep the members safe here.

You shouldn't know about 2015 attack, are you going to farm merits and sell your account in a few months?
OP, you should jump some girls before you die, merit me for my suggestion.

Yeah I think this forum protects passwords with sha-256

It was pretty big news bro. And farming merits is the last thing I'd want to do. If I want to make money I'll log into my Steemit account and post from there.

Why are are hijacking the thread ? You should post here if you want to say something related to the query asked. This post seems like a promotion for the website you mentioned.

Are you dumb? I gave you a response. In case you didn't read it I'll quote it again for you...


So why don't you take your teenage angst elsewhere and tell off all the people with signature under their names. You sound like you're just trying to promote that site in your banner with poor quality posts.

Also Steem is a coin, run using the steemit platform. Go back to the off-topic section please.

How to secure spectre and meltown attack?

It is not enough to get protection but also to apply insurance or back-up of your password just like in business or in your highly valued properties you need to ensure it has in insurance well in our account case no matter how to strong our password maybe it still need insurance for example storing in your email addresses it's password.

The 2015 attack happened because the attacker managed to gain root access and steal the password hash.
Even if they use a strong password, that hash can still be bruteforced by the attacker, my original ID were one of its victim (although it is no longer active anymore)
honestly, it is still a problem whether you use strong password or not, when a site gets hacked you must change your password.

Another tips, you might want to get password manager like Keepass, saving your password on a notepad is bad idea.

I thought those were Hardware based exploit ?
Microsoft already released a patch against those exploit, so it shouldn't be working as long as you have your windows updated.

Is that okay to save your password on a notepad? If talking about hassle to input really long passwords with signs, numbers and letters with Caps it was tiring but keeping it away from your notepad makes it safer. i just really get this idea since this was a rule of thumb given by professionals in the industry.

Just don't give away any password of yours also upper and lowercase and symbols and numbers are going to make the password stronger take that advice. The best advice I got is don't click links and login to it even if the sender is a trusted user. Most of the time why MEW wallets are hacked is because they logon to phishing sites.

Protecting your wallets is as important as protecting your bitcointalk account.

I want to ask ya, why the hell if we often open a bitcointalk account using wifi it often to hackers ?? Please advise

Even though I'm a translator of all the dead and alive languages, your post is not written in any language known to men, it often to hackers makes no sense. but I could tell you that you have already answered your question.

Yes, recently we've seen a lot of accounts being hacked. The problem is spliced into 2 general things.
1-Weakness of forum security
2-Careless about security by the user (I mean using an easy password).

Your opinion is right, careless about account security is always lead to lose your account. If anyone cares a lot about his own account, then he should put an effort and search how making it more secure.

Your suggestions are good. People who have strongest password and care a lot about their account's security are mostly safe from being hacked.
But the problem is not here, I think there is a possibility to be hacked even if you made a strong password. The big problem is when you will be hacked, you will not notice by email until the hacker change the password and the bitcointalk email, Also there is no a confirmation email sender for you to confirm that you want to change your password or not. Here, it is the wrong point.

I agree with you because most of those who hack is because their password is too easy so easy to hack easily master their account.
maybe I'll add # 3 to your suggestion: it's not easy to click incoming links via email messages or bitcointalk accounts, learn carefully because most are hacked through PM

My account got hacked even though i have strong password both email and btctalk account, still didn't know how the hacker can change my email address and my password.

Did the hacker get access into your email account also? That probably means your computer has a trojan or keylogger.

Well it isn't conventional to keep passwords in a notepad but it works for me. It would be more secure to encrypt the notepad file, but then I would need to remember another password...

Saving your password in notepad even in other files in your PERSONAL COMPUTER is safe just make sure you are the only one using IT, and the no. 1 needs to avoid is sharing your email address to other people much better if you create spare email to share publicly and your private email will keep it private. Hackers can find a way to hack somebody accounts their thinking and device is much advance than us that is why avoid sharing your email in other people to lessen the risk of your account.

this time it is starting to bloom will be a hacker ....
whether it's from what
I myself have experienced it even though at that time my account has been implemented as you described above ..
it is very necessary that the solution to this is found