Has Verizon been hacked? Google Chrome seems to think so. Just a few minutes ago I tried to log into Verizon to see why my phone isn’t making any calls and to also see why I can’t make any text messages. I’m going to have to probably assume they haven’t been hacked, but how does one know for sure? No need to fear everyone, I’m running Linux.

The message I received was:
“You attempted to reach ebillpay.verizonwireless.com, but the certificate that the server presented has been revoked by its issuer. This means that the security credentials the server presented absolutely should not be trusted. You may be communicating with an attacker. You should not proceed.”

Here is a screenshot taken just a few minutes ago. (10:37AM EST).

Late last year some 32million accounts were hacked at RockYou. What was the most common factor for these accounts? Weak passwords. Passwords are your lifeline for your Internet accounts and you shouldn’t be using guessable words and numbers as your passwords. I’m not saying you should use a giant 32 character password, but adding a few combinations of numbers and special characters can make it difficult for hackers to guess.

Create a new password now.
1. Open up the dictionary
2. Look for a cool word that you can remember.
3. Add two numbers to the end of the word.
4. Add two special characters as well.

Example: slapstick72**

In reality, slapstick72 is a perfectly good password without the *’s.

RockYou accounts had passwords such as “12345″ and “123456789″, but those are obviously easy to guess. It really is laughable.

“Only 0.2% of users had what would be considered a strong password of eight or more characters that contains a mixture of special characters, numbers and both lower and upper case letters, says the study.” -TechCrunch

That is sad.

Weak passwords were also the cause of the Major twitter hack not too long ago.