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EEVblog:
There has been a recent spate of existing forum accounts being compromised by spam bots.
Presumably they had their details stolen and reused passwords?
So just a reminder to make your password unique and/or use the 2FA security feature.

xrunner:
Yea I have seen a lot of them recently. Therefore I just set up 2FA here and the process was painless and worked.  :-+

KE5FX:
How does one brute-force a password?  Don't you lock the account out for X hours after Y unsuccessful attempts?

Usually, "brute forcing" a password involves a stolen password database file, potentially from some other site where the user with the same name used the same password.

coppercone2:
the meat of our dead crew members is being turned into spammer-advertiser cyborgs

can the morgue be locked?

MLXXXp:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on February 20, 2024, 11:42:15 pm ---and/or use the 2FA security feature.

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Any chance support for FIDO hardware security keys for 2FA (Yubico, Google Titan, etc.) could be added?

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