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

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month 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 "[email protected]" or "[email protected]" 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 "[email protected]"
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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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 "[email protected]" for example. It's pretty great because you just make the masks on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about plus addressing which is supported by most major mail services for free? You can just use [email protected] for example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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 [email protected] goes instead to [email protected].