• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

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  1. Zarathustra[H]

    One in Five Websites Still Use Outdated SHA-1 Encryption Algorithm

    SHA-1 has been known to be potentially insecure since 2005, but this wasn't proven in practice, at least not publicly, until Google recently announced they executed a successful collision attack, breaking it. The collision attack is notable as it takes about one 100,000th of the time to crack...
  2. FrgMstr

    SHA-1 Cracked after 20 Years

    Secure Hash Algorithm 1 has finally been cracked. That said, it is not exactly something easy to do and requires some expensive resources, but we can be sure that someone nasty has those resources available. You can read up on this at the Google Security Blog. Today, more than 20 years after...
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