Topic: Often change your BCT account password (Read 321 times)

While I completely agree, most of the time, it's significantly better and beneficial in terms of security to use a password manager. If you have a keylogger on your computer, then you're screwed either way even if you're using a password manager or not. Using a password manager simply just decreases the ways of your accounts getting hacked in general.

Password managers in general is a double edged sword. Heavily beneficial if executed and used well, but disastrously bad if used unsecurely.

Password managers are a good way to keep track of all the passwords you use but they are not perfect either. A password manager will not protect you against a quality keylogger for example.

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More about that here
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36224/is-keepass-a-good-defense-against-keyloggers

yes... I think having strong password + staked address is better than changing password regularly
however one should change his password if he hasn't done it since dbhack in 2015

agree... I'm pretty sure most accounts were hacked by compromising the computer thru various ways
brute forcing username/password would take too much time and resources

Aside from password changing, just follow other internet basics about security. This is a must have information we should have.

Will not elaborate it for newbies (or others) to take their homeworks.

In my whole Bitcointalk period, I only changed my password a couple of times on which the last time was way back a couple or year ago. Well not an adviice for newbies. Im just sure with the security I have on my machines.

+1. Those are the two password managers I use and recommend.

- KeePass is free, completely open source and doesn't require any internet connection nor storing your passwords in a random server somewhere.
- Bitwarden is free (and the Premium version is cheap - $10/year) and you can use your own self-hosted solution to store your passwords. This way you don't have to trust any third-party cloud storage.

Instead of doing this, use a password manager. I really don't know why people aren't still using password managers these days. They're so good that it's a huge must-need for anyone who has multiple accounts from various forums/social media/games/etc online. Using a password manager, you can have different passwords on each of your accounts, with 40 characters, with numbers and symbols and stuff, without needed to memorize every single one of them. Just make sure your master password itself if secure enough(preferably 30+ characters).

My personal picks (DYOR as always):

• https://keepass.info/
• https://bitwarden.com/

As @Ddmr Ddmr rightfully stated it's important to have a signed bitcoin message and also I would not totally agree with continuous change of password. If you can just have a strong quality password you would be fine

I do not think most of the hacks we're done through Brite forcing into the accounts. The hackers might hsve gotten access to the email and used that to reset the password.
Any security measure should be taken to protect your account.

And make sure to have signed a message with your address, so as to recover your account should it ever be lost.

That's correct, using the reset password option via the secret question lock your account. Few people learned it in a hard way. I hope Theymos will be able to add his new stuff, it will be one of the best things for the forum for a long time.

Back to the OP, People can use LastPass to remember their password, it's available in all decent browsers. And of course, don't use the same password for multiple sites

As a first measure, one should really currently sign a Bitcoin signed message which you should place in the corresponding thread ( Stake your Bitcoin address here, and ask for it to be quoted and verified. That is, as of today, the only way of having a chance at getting a hacked account back.

@theymos is making some changes to the account recovery procedure, which should shorten the required time (currently everlasting), and will likely update on this when the full new procedure is rolled out. Meantime, it is wise to take a look at @sncc’s [Guide] Bitcointalk account security before proceeding.

Changing the password regularly is a general good procedure to follow, but on this forum, the recovery procedure if you mess-up is currently exasperating. For example, if I interpreted correctly the content of @sncc’s guide, changing your password using your secret question leads to your account getting automatically locked (and the unlock procedure requires you to have previously have the above referenced Bitcoin signed message, and currently months on end of wait).

      As the days goes by in this forum seeing many users making a ban appeal for their accounts, getting hack for their precious BCT accounts and having negative trust in their profile stating that a BCT account was really valuable and worth it to have. But still problem and making precious BCT accounts could still be at danger by getting hack by other users. So, to prevent this I suggest for every users to change password often. This will help you secured your account and relatively will help you do more in this forum discussing about cryptocurrency.

      Never had been told that it is really good to have an account with BCT forum and that is why my dear friend you must secure your account for it is very difficult to achieve and gain merits especially if you were not technically good about cryptocurrency of in this forum. As you can see that most of the merits are given to those who are good technically in this forum though there are some instances that one might get merits when they agree with your posts even if the construction of grammar is wrong.

      I know that I can be wrong sometimes here but as a sense of Christmas it so good to share some good vibes together with the current bitcoin market price increase to give an advise especially to the newcomers to establish a good security protocol for the BCT account one day as your account grows and rank up.

      So, Change your password frequently or make at least 3 password to which you can use to change from time to time so you will have no hard time on remembering your current password. Just so important to take down notes on every changes you will going to make so that it will not be a problem when you will going to forget things.