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Silly question, but what's the name for the screws that hold a GPU to the case? My case was a bit cheap and didn't come with any. It's got a plate that screws in to hold cards in place, but it's not adequate for a big GPU.
 
A customer, who is a large enough company to know better, let the VM Host running my company's software run out of disk space and this is not the first time.
 
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arstechnica.com

LastPass users: Your info and password vault data are now in hackers’ hands

Password manager says breach it disclosed in August was much worse than thought.
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In Thursday’s update, the company said hackers accessed personal information and related metadata, including company names, end-user names, billing addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses customers used to access LastPass services. The hackers also copied a backup of customer vault data that included unencrypted data such as website URLs and encrypted data fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.


“These encrypted fields remain secured with 256-bit AES encryption and can only be decrypted with a unique encryption key derived from each user’s master password using our Zero Knowledge architecture,” LastPass CEO Karim Toubba wrote, referring to the Advanced Encryption Scheme and a bit rate that’s considered strong. Zero Knowledge refers to storage systems that are impossible for the service provider to decrypt.
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I did try a password manager for a very short time but apart from not getting on with the interface I felt uncomfortable about the idea of leaving all my passwords locked under one password iynwim. Two FA gives me headaches as well so I decided to start creating ridiculous long unguessable passwords for my most sensitive log ins and writing them down somewhere hidden offline.

Unfortunately nothing is fool proof. Somebody could effectively break in and steal them. Somebody else might find a way to hack me with a key logger but it's better than leaving your sensitive data in somebody else's hands. There are numerous counts now of "reputable companies" being hacked and suffering data breaches and that doesn't even account for the fact that any company is susceptible to rogue employees on the inside accessing your data without your knowledge.
 
savoloysam said:
I did try a password manager for a very short time but apart from not getting on with the interface I felt uncomfortable about the idea of leaving all my passwords locked under one password iynwim. Two FA gives me headaches as well so I decided to start creating ridiculous long unguessable passwords for my most sensitive log ins and writing them down somewhere hidden offline.

Unfortunately nothing is fool proof. Somebody could effectively break in and steal them. Somebody else might find a way to hack me with a key logger but it's better than leaving your sensitive data in somebody else's hands. There are numerous counts now of "reputable companies" being hacked and suffering data breaches and that doesn't even account for the fact that any company is susceptible to rogue employees on the inside accessing your data without your knowledge.
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You could self host bit warden as an option.
 
Oh the irony.

I got a letter from my previous employers yesterday, the one who got rid of me because I couldn't get the security clearance.

On 26th October they had a massive security breach and all my details have likely been stolen.

Wouldn't have happened if half the cloud team hadn't either left or been fired.

I wonder if I can get some compensation from them, lol.

'The GDPR gives you a right to claim compensation from an organisation if you have suffered damage as a result of it breaking data protection law. This includes both “material damage” (e.g. you have lost money) or “non-material damage” (e.g. you have suffered distress).'
 
If you used a good master password you are probably ok.
 

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If I was using them then I'd be on a serious password changing mission right now, regardless of what they say.
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Nah, I do have an understanding of how their system works and my vault password is particularly fiendish. Nothing is perfectly safe, of course, but I'm comfortable with the risk factor on this one. I make sure to change the important passwords (no, not urban) every few years so I'll just move the schedule up on HMRC and the like. My banking already involves exactly zero passwords, and passwords for anything important are on the way out anyhow.

I'm too comfortable with the cloud based password managers to go back now, and LP just suffers from being the biggest target. At least they're public about it.
 
Chz said:
Nah, I do have an understanding of how their system works and my vault password is particularly fiendish. Nothing is perfectly safe, of course, but I'm comfortable with the risk factor on this one. I make sure to change the important passwords (no, not urban) every few years so I'll just move the schedule up on HMRC and the like. My banking already involves exactly zero passwords, and passwords for anything important are on the way out anyhow.

I'm too comfortable with the cloud based password managers to go back now, and LP just suffers from being the biggest target. At least they're public about it.
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Yes all my important stuff has MFA on it and although I was reluctant to start using one initially, I do think overall I'm probably safter with Bit Warden then not having it.
 
Oh dear. My CPU is getting rather warm. Like hovering at 80 warm and checking my log it hit 90. :eek:

When I built the PC about 15 months ago, I didn't think I'd be putting such a big graphics card in it. The case is smallish budget one (Coolermaster q300), but it's mesh on the top and front. I've got 3 140mm fans, located on the rear, the top and the front. I've ordered another one for the front, but there's still a huge card pumping out heat not far from the CPU. CPU is an i5 11600 with an Be Quiet Pure Rock Slim 2 cooler on it. Not sure what else I can do. I could change the cooler, but can't get a beast in there, just don't think there is enough space. Would changing thermal paste make any difference? It's just using the stock pad that came with the cooler. Could get another case with more space, but it's something I'd like to avoid.
 
You're fussing where you don't need to. Intel have always said that anything under 100C is fine. I had an i5-750 that I ran for 7 years and would peak at 96C if I really pushed it. An i5 11600 will always run a bit hot, it's in its nature.

Only thing I would say is that you've no overclock room with that cooler. If you're not running stock, that's the first thing to dial back.
 
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