how not to become the next hacker victim

[acari]

I meant to post this last week, but then my LAN quit on me.

I don't know if you noticed the increase in hacked LJs. Latest hacking examples: copperbadge, dorkorific and through her shoebox_project, zarah5 and through her contrelamontre and orlandoslash (see airgiodslv's post and penknife's post).

If you clicked on links in any strange or unusual posts in any of those communities lately, especially if some new mod you've never

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[azurelunatic]

I hear via announcements to the Support volunteer community that LJ is aware of the vulnerability that a first-validated email address not within your control causes, and is working on a tool that would be able to remove such addresses. However, I do not have a timeframe on when this would be available, and I do not know if one has been given to people above me, although I suspect not.

Make sure that your email addresses do not have vulnerable security questions. Notably, any question/answer pair that you've ever used in a meme should never ever be a security question/answer for anything you own.

Edit: support-related userpic selection fail.

[acari]

Thanks for the info about the future tool. I'll put it in the post.