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Hackers are claiming to have accounts at major United States government agencies for sale, including NASA, the Navy, and the Department of Veteran Affairs. The unverified cache found by Infoarmor chief intelligence officer Andrew Komarov includes 33,000 records tied to the US Government, plus research and educational …

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    Better use them quick

    Virtually all of the government accounts require a password change every month or so - anyway it's a sure bet that by the end of the day these accounts will either be disabled or honeypots.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Better use them quick

      You think the US government can act that quickly? They haven't in the past.

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      1. oldcoder
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        Re: Better use them quick

        NRL certainly can. Been there seen that. In our group as soon as we were notified (as in, management saw/read the report, or sometimes even rumors) the passwords can be forced.

        the normal replacement was every 90 days, as measured from last password change. But it could be reset to any interval.

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  2. Bloakey1

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    "One government data listing visited by The Register promised alleged access to six unnamed accounts for subdomains of the US Navy including 3.5 bitcoins (US$2132)."

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    Non comprender caballero. Are you saying that the 'sub domains' include bitcoins or that it costs that for the data?

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