Habbox Management..

[scottish]

Mm i was thinking due to the fact of ,jess, getting owned.

Shouldn't habbox have some sort of protection for habbox staff emails.

Such as a new main folder say habboxforum.com/managers instead of /webmail

There the MANAGEMENT would have their emails, and use htaccess or whatever other method to IP filter, so only the selected members of management would be allowed to gain access through their IP.

So they'd have no way to access her email account which would contain her hxf/hxl/hx details and possibly her habbo if she wished.

This way noones gaining access to a managements gmail or whatever, resetting all passwords then redirects/stealing furni/doing shoutouts etc and generally more secure.

just thinking ;P

[Mrs.McCall]

We are told to register Habboxforum and Habbox accounts separate from our personal accounts and all email addresses are not listed under Joomla or listed on the forum.

What happened to Jess is extremely unfortunate and nobody deserves the level of humiliation they have given her. Hacking the site is one thing but to give away the details they are is despicable. Nobody deserves that.

Security at Habbox is extremely important and this is an unfortunate, and very rare, case.

[Favourtism]

This wouldnt matter, she downloaded (stupidly?) an istealer therefore showing the passwords and sites she went on so accounts would be comprimised

[Mikey]

If Habbox find out the group of people who have done it, they should sue them. It's a shame for Jess, she must be really annoyed and embrassed about it.

[scottish]

I doubt habbox would sue 14 year old kids lol.

And sue = money.

Btw isn't posting someone elses details on their site kinda illegal from like privacy protection acts and such?

[kuzkasate]

No-one deserved what happened to Jess. Its just shocking, just prooves how immature people are these days. Not only that, but they must be pretty sad to sit there "hacking" a forum for teens and kids... How sad can you get?

[leah]

This wouldnt matter, she downloaded (stupidly?) an istealer therefore showing the passwords and sites she went on so accounts would be comprimised

Firstly, theres no need to make snide comments like that, she made a mistake and i'm sure she could do without abuse right now...
also skot was suggesting something that only lets you sign in if your ip was recognised, so even if they gained passwords, they couldn't steal your ip.

[Mentor]

Just as a suggestion a good keyring/password manager would quite easly fix the human error side of things by simply removing the need to actually type passwords in by hand at all? Thus nullifying the effect of key-loggers and removing the need to memorizes your account password leaving the door open to 70 character strings that would add a major security boost "/

Possible standardizing a keyring procedure for habbox staff may be an idea for stopping this kind of thing occurring again, equally since with lower level staff access to the account is not the be all and end all, the worst case of simply loosing your password is really not to bigger deal when higher ups can just reset it, and much less of a nuisance than the risk of the old fashioned method (aka what happened with the hackings)

[Grig]

Ips can change though etc.

Just an unfortunate inncident as indeed security on Habbox is up there.

[Hecktix]

I believe (and by no means is this a dig at Jess) that this incident can be used as a reminder for personal online security.

Jess fell into a trap that so many people fall into. It could happen to any one of us,

I just think that it's one of those occasions where it highlights the need for security, regular scanning etc.

Jess should not feel embarassed over this issue as it's not her fault it was just a simple mistake.