I've misplaced a floppy containing my complete financial status amongst all passwords to all my account, Internet banking etc ...
It was all written with Microsoft Excel and I have password-protected the document ...
How easy would it be to hack into the table if someone would find the floppy and would want to do that ???
Boris
Originally posted by The Slow PawnPut some gravy on that sombich, THAT'S FUNNY!!!!
I've misplaced a floppy containing my complete financial status amongst all passwords to all my account, Internet banking etc ...
It was all written with Microsoft Excel and I have password-protected the document ...
How easy would it be to hack into the table if someone would find the floppy and would want to do that ???
Boris
Originally posted by The Slow PawnIf you check your bank accounts you will see just how easy it was.
I've misplaced a floppy containing my complete financial status amongst all passwords to all my account, Internet banking etc ...
It was all written with Microsoft Excel and I have password-protected the document ...
How easy would it be to hack into the table if someone would find the floppy and would want to do that ???
Boris
🙂
Originally posted by darvlayIt's actually worse, it's labelled Finance 2006 so IF someone would find it they could put one and one together quite quickly ...
I can just see it now:
DerSauerKrautTopSecretSpreadsheetOfPasswords-StayOutThisMeansYou.xls
So anyone knows how safe Excel is (when password protected) ??
Regards
Boris
Originally posted by The Slow Pawnhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-44,GGLD:en&q=hacking+excel+password+documents
It's actually worse, it's labelled Finance 2006 so IF someone would find it they could put one and one together quite quickly ...
So anyone knows how safe Excel is (when password protected) ??
Regards
Boris
Not looking good 🙁
Originally posted by The Slow PawnYou should have labeled it "Free Money"
It's actually worse, it's labelled Finance 2006 so IF someone would find it they could put one and one together quite quickly ...
So anyone knows how safe Excel is (when password protected) ??
Regards
Boris
Never leave passwords anywhere but in your brain, or at the least on the wall of the garage with nothing else.
RTh
Originally posted by The Slow PawnI can email you the spreadsheet if you want.
I've misplaced a floppy containing my complete financial status amongst all passwords to all my account, Internet banking etc ...
It was all written with Microsoft Excel and I have password-protected the document ...
How easy would it be to hack into the table if someone would find the floppy and would want to do that ???
Boris
Originally posted by The Slow PawnIf your accounts haven't been compromised yet, but your passwords are in the public domain, then I strongly* recommend that you contact your bank by phone (should be a number on their website or your statement) and report this. They'll change your password away from the one that is in the public domain (meaning you might lose online access to the accounts briefly) and trigger a process by which you, by proving you are indeed the genuine you, can reset your passwords to something secure once more.
What ?
My consultancy invoice is in the post, along with your wretched floppy disk (I forgot I don't even have excel on this box of chips'n'wires).
Good luck.
*i.e. you'd be an idiot not to take this advice
P.s. In future, don't write them down. Try http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html for a lesson on how to securely memorise your password.
Originally posted by rhb- Thanks -
If your accounts haven't been compromised yet, but your passwords are in the public domain, then I strongly* recommend that you contact your bank by phone (should be a number on their website or your statement) and report this. They'll change your password away from the one that is in the public domain (meaning you might lose online access to the accounts briefl ...[text shortened]... fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html for a lesson on how to securely memorise your password.
I've actually gone that paranoia that I drove back to my company and found the floppy in question in my computer ...
Since this isn't a labelled floppy and since I was one of the last people leaving today, I'm 99.9% sure that no-one touched it (why would anyone go through computers after hours … to look for what??)... Also the document hasn't been accessed (at least that's what the properties of file tell me) ...
The excel document has never been on any public domains (I've only accessed it from the floppy today and don't usually carry a copy of this document with me neither) ...
Guess I can put my paranoia to rest for now …
But having seen that it is extremely easy to hack into excel documents, does anyone has a better idea of how to store data in a better and more protected way (as I simply cannot remember all those passwords, there are far too many) ??
Thanks
Boris
Originally posted by The Slow PawnHow many passwords do you have?
But having seen that it is extremely easy to hack into excel documents, does anyone has a better idea of how to store data in a better and more protected way (as I simply cannot remember all those passwords, there are far too many) ??
Originally posted by The Slow PawnThe only true secure way to store your passwords is in your head (and that won't be 100% secure if you don't like flamethrowers and nose pincers whilst under duress)
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I've actually gone that paranoia that I drove back to my company and found the floppy in question in my computer ...
Since this isn't a labelled floppy and since I was one of the last people leaving today, I'm 99.9% sure that no-one touched it (why would anyone go through computers after hours … to look for what??)... Also the docume ...[text shortened]... I simply cannot remember all those passwords, there are far too many) ??
Thanks
Boris
Visit: http://www.fun-with-words.com/mnemonics.html for one way to do this
and cut out da smoking of da herb 😛
P.s. By saying it was in the public domain, I meant that the moment you lost the disc, it was in effect in the public domain. I didn't mean a virtual domain where the file may have been stored.