Preparedness for when

Nargleblast

...So, two pegs on the washing in Mexico, then.....(shouldn't make light of others' misfortunes, bad Nargle!)

greenbee

185 mph according to the news here this morning...

Nargleblast

The Philippines are also going through tough weather at the moment. Makes me glad we live in a temperate climate zone.

Frugalsod

Nargleblast wrote: »

Yes, reading the news this morning about the cyber attack. Customers are urged to change their Chatchat account password, and if they use the same password anywhere else, to change that too. The company has apparently warned the major banks about possible fraud. I am sure that we are hearing about it after it has happened, i.e. any attacks on people's bank accounts will have already happened before the news came out. Yesterday on checking my account things were fine. I may do a quick balance check at a cash machine, but I certainly will not be checking my account via computer, kindle, IPad, smartphone or even via the telephone banking service! I may be over cautious, but you never know.......does anyone know if there is some form of protection for bank customers when funds are lost through cyber attacks?

This is why I have a password manager. It makes keeping passwords different easy no need to write anything down plus I keep mine synced across my devices so can enter when necessary. Plus with long randomly generated passwords they have no chance of breaking my passwords.

I also have random user names across services so impossible to link across services that I use. So my user name for this site is nothing like any of my other user names.

Should the worst happen I only have one account to worry about and is also why I never use the Facebook login. Should that ever be hacked they would have access to hundreds of sites, which would be hard work and time consuming to change.

Frugalsod

Nargleblast wrote: »

The Philippines are also going through tough weather at the moment. Makes me glad we live in a temperate climate zone.

I am planning a long trip there in the future. No dates set but probably around June and July, so getting close to the start of typhoon season. Though current plans include a weeks stay on a desert island to really practise some bushcraft skills. Also planning to swim with whale sharks and camp in the crater of Mount Pinatubo, as well as climb the active volcano Mayon. So currently researching things where there are greater risks than usual compared to here, such as Dengue fever and poisonous snakes.

I am avoiding the extreme south of the country because of a separatist uprising there.

GreyQueen

Evening all.

Dunno about Mexico but I'm wondering what the Enviroment Agency know because they've just sent me a Floodline email with how # floodaware are you? as the subject line.

I assume the hashtag means something to the twitterati..........:p

ivyleaf

short_bird I entirely agree about Rapport! I installed it and had endless problems, including the computer running very very slowly. When I got my DS (who does a lot of techie stuff) to have a look, he said "Oh, you've got blimin' Rapport on there - no wonder you're having problems, it takes up loads of space!" and un-installed it.

This afternoon I wanted to log onto my NW account, but after the little swirly thing had gone round and round for ages it announced that it "couldn't find the cache".

I shall not start flapping that their site "must have been hacked panic panic!"; I'll simply try again tomorrow, but I wonder if it's due to loads of people who are TalkTalk customers trying to get in at the same time to check their accounts are okay?

mardatha

Oooops I must've been lucky lol

ivyleaf

Oh, that's encouraging mar. Was that actual RBS though, rather than NatWest? I don't know quite what will happen when I do try again, as I'd actually logged in before it decided it "couldn't find the cache" and there wasn't actually an opportunity to log back out again.

I'm so glad I'm not a TalkTalk customer myself

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Oooops I must've been lucky lol

I don't do online banking, I'm far too inclined to transpose numbers when tired. I'd probably send my money to someone else, or accidentally buy a 747 or summat.

Well, speakers haven't gone WHUMP since I plugged the CRT monitor into a powerstrip off another socket to the rest of the pooter and its accessories. Does that mean my monitor is dying, nuatha (or anyone)?

Actually, I nearly threw a brick at it in frustration a couple of hours ago as am trying to get onto my freegle account and couldn't. So went to re-register to be told that this nickname was already being used (yeah, it's my own previously-used freegle handle linked to the same email address and password I just gave you, ya dumbos) so did a re-reg as a new user and it has to send an activation email to me which hasn't arrived. And if it hasn't, I should check my spam folder/ trash folder, only Outlook Express 6 doesn't appear to have any such thing, so I can't even register and give stuff away and I'm soooo :mad: it's just not true.

Freegle here used to be a simple and straightforward thing and the worst you encountered was the occasional no-show. Now you have to faddle-arris around with their website and I'm getting far too irritable to be bothered. I shall take what I can to the chazzer and am tempted to s0dding landfill the rest. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

* and breathe. sorry*

Goes off to have a :wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall: session.

Or a fullblown tantrum. Nuurrrrrrrrsssssssssieeeeeeee, bring me tea, chocolate cake, I'm getting to Maximum Ratbag.

ETA; the world is bonkers. Went onto a site with a live traffic feed that correctly IDs me as being in the UK on other visits and now I am in San Francisco. Too funny........... ;P