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GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What risk is there to estimate? Assume that the attackers have the clear text of your password, and know that it's your password.

Would be nice if they told us how they hashed it or if they hashed it at all. If the passwords are bcrypt then it wouldn't matter if an attacker got that hash.

Stealing the password database is one vector. Modifying the login form to log the clear text of your password is another.

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!

I only use Apple on a daily basis, so I use the inbuilt iCloud Keychain which syncs my passwords across Apple devices. I use the built in password generator to generate secure passwords that are unique for each website. For the times I do log in to a PC, I can call up my passwords on my iPhone to type them in manually.

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #13
post #3

As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!

I'm using LastPass with a 2FA Yubikey token. In addition, I try use different E-Mail adresses whenever I sign up, a catchall makes sure they end up in the same inbox. This might not stop a sophisticated targeted attack, but it should throw off a lot of automated runs since the email they got is seemingly not used at another service. A litte obscurity to strengthen the rest of my security ;)

How does the Yubikey work? Do you have to plug it in every time you want to sign into a site?

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #23
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using LastPass with a 2FA Yubikey token. In addition, I try use different E-Mail adresses whenever I sign up, a catchall makes sure they end up in the same inbox. This might not stop a sophisticated targeted attack, but it should throw off a lot of automated runs since the email they got is seemingly not used at another service. A litte obscurity to strengthen the rest of my security ;)

How does the Yubikey work? Do you have to plug it in every time you want to sign into a site?

No, only once to decrypt the lastpass database. You can even set to only ask every 30 days, however I feel that this defeats the security features a little

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #20
post #3

As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!

A unique password, 2FA, AND a unique email address. I use https://lastpass.com/ for generating passwords. $12/year and works on Linux & Android. Would prefer open source, but nothing else comes close. I tend to generate 32 char passwords with a mix of upper, lower, number, and special. Only a few websites insist on shorter passwords - or have character restrictions. For 2FA I use either SMS or Authy https://www.authy…

Ha, just like my setup. And yes, it does confuse people, to a lot of them it seems like magic.

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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It's sad that this is a service instead of just free software. Did that never evolve to be user friendly enough? Do ISPs not let you run your own web server anymore? Maybe it's because of changing IP addresses and domain names? The cost of this service seems to be slightly more than the cost of maintaining your own domain name.

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #3

As these hacks are becoming more common place, I'd love to hear fellow HN reader's take on their password strategy/management. Many thanks in advance!

I'm hashing my passwords. For example, when logging into any google service, I use:

    echo "secret123|google" | sha1sum
where "secret123" is my master password (I use a much longer one actually to be safe). Similarly, on facebook, I woudl use:

    echo "secret123|facebook" | sha1sum
To both passwords, I add "Aa1!" to make it pass the capital/lowercase etc. tests.

EDIT: it is best to write a script for this

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #11

How user friendly is guacamole? Anyone have any experience setting it up for non techies?

While I have not set it up personally, it seems if you were to get it up and running for them and have a relatively easy to remember domain, it shouldn't be too hard.

However, not having used it for a prolonged period, I don't know what the time investment for maintenance will be.

Re: GoToMyPC has been hacked, all customer passwords reset

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post #26

It's sad that this is a service instead of just free software. Did that never evolve to be user friendly enough? Do ISPs not let you run your own web server anymore? Maybe it's because of changing IP addresses and domain names? The cost of this service seems to be slightly more than the cost of maintaining your own domain name.

I run my own web server with a residential ISP and they don't seem to mind. But in places like an office or with really crappy ISPs you just don't have a public IP. I've searched for services that just let you forward out a few ports over SSH but these don't seem to exist. Right now, to get to my laptop I have a raspberry pi "jump box" that sits on the book shelf and my laptop connects to it over SSH and forwards out port 80 and 22 so I can get to it from pretty much any network.
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