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The Internet Archive is under attack, with a popup claiming a ‘catastrophic’ breach (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

I recently went through most of my accounts and randomized the username, with the thought here being to limit the likelihood of one site being compromised leading to accounts at other sites being compromised. I don't have to remember them due to using a password manager, so it's really no skin off my nose.

I'll use this as a reminder to everyone to improve your security. Some ideas:

use a password manager and use random usernames and passwords
have multiple email accounts, and don't use your "main" email w/ random signups - I use a simple mnemonic, like "-@domain.com"; so "me-shopping@domain.com" or "me-games@domain.com" so it's easy for me to remember, but unlikely for a lazy hacker to pwn other accounts (a lot of these are automated); my real email is "me@different-domain.com"
use 2FA if offered, even if it's stupid SMS or email based; having any extra step can deter an attacker

Sucks that people are targeting IA, I hope there isn't any lasting damage and that this is a simple defacement/DOS.

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

For e-mails, you can just get firefox relay with your own subdomain and generate infinite e-mail masks for 1$ a month. I usually take "nameofshop@mysubdomain.mozmail.com" for example. It's pretty great because you just make the masks on the fly.

[–] elfin8er@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What about plus addressing which is supported by most major mail services for free? You can just use personaladdress+nameofshop@gmail.com for example.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For users of Gmail, I can confirm this works and you can even set it up so that address+nameofshop goes to a folder called "nameofshop."

You can also apparently add a dot anywhere before @gmail.com and still receive the email. I haven't tried this one, but the last time I mentioned this someone said it was part of the email standard, so presumably it works.

I don't know of tricks specifically of this vein for proton mail, but I do know you can setup a catch-all address so, for example, something addressed to invalidaddress@domain.com goes instead to spam@domain.com.

I've not tried SimpleLogin, but apparently it offers similar functionality.

[–] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

can confirm, foo@gmail.com works just the same as f.o.o@gmail.com

[–] Pringles@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't know that actually. They can still deduce your actual email address from that, but for the identification of the culprit that would work as well.

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