netwrk sniffers and localhost

[Karl Larsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 14:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Charles Curley wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:45:30PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>
>>     A few weeks ago I got caught sleeping. I figured the hardware 
>> firewall will keep all hackers away but I was very wrong. A guy bent on 
>> doing something minor established a ssh connection to my computer and 
>> then guessed my user name and password. It was very simple. I have since 
>> changed the password. He just went to my browser and there connected to 
>> web pages that take hours to come up. I think the guy, and know the web 
>> pages, are in Germany.
>>
>>     If he wants to try again it will not work.
>>
>>     
>
> You need a better passwd. I have tried the latest cracking programs on mine for 
> 3 days and it was never cracked.
>   

    Well my old password was my last name :-)
I suspect it took less than 30 seconds to get that. But now it is caps 
and lower case and numbers and 9 characters long. It will be a lot harder.


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