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As Naked Security has noted before, attackers aren’t going to be thrown off if somebody swaps an for an A.Ĭracking passwords is often an automated, painless process: the attackers, rather than sitting around trying to guess our passwords, just hand the job over to computer programs.

That leet speak one needs some qualification. What GoToMyPC forgot to mention: don’t reuse passwords!.Use Leet speak: in other words, substitute numbers for letters that look similar (for example, substitute “0” for “o” or “3” for “E”.

Make it complex: randomly add capital letters, punctuation or symbols.

Use a new password, not one used before.

Make sure it’s a good one, GoToMyPC said, giving these password creation tips: Here’s how: use the “Forgot Password” link located under the GoToMyPC account login. Users need to change their passwords, effective immediately. After a few hours, the company warned users of the attack. No details have been released, so we’ll have to take Citrix’s word for it when it says that the attack was “very sophisticated.”Ĭitrix didn’t immediately report the attack: the first thing that happened was that customers noticed they couldn’t log in and were instead being forced to change their passwords.

To protect you, the security team recommended that we reset all customer passwords immediately. Unfortunately, the GoToMYPC service has been targeted by a very sophisticated password attack. Here’s why: Citrix’s remote-access service for laptops and PCs has been hacked, and users are being required to change their passwords.įrom an incident report Citrix posted on Saturday and that it’s been updating since: