• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Change Your Password and Turn On 2FA, Please

As what?

What experience have you had with 2FA on a Xenforo forum that's a pain in the ass?

Know what else is a pain in the ass? Having your account hacked. I didn't post this thread for nothing; it's been happening.
 
tzrider said:
BTW, Ian, the email address you registered on this site with has been compromised in 18 separate breaches.
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You know, you said it was no big deal and I disagreed. Now you’re upset. Why? I never said 2FA was bad or wrong, just that it can be a PITA.
If you cannot accept a difference of opinion, you should turn in your admin keys.
 
Not upset but asking you in what way it's a pain in the ass. You seem not to be able to answer.

If you choose to ignore basic security hygiene, you're potentially creating work for others.
 
Hell...I didn't even know we had a 2FA option with BARF now. I'll sign up for that. :thumbup
 
Passwd changed, where's the 2FA button?

My brain is addled, too much time building a shed in the yard today. If I lean my head to one side, it might pour out of my ear.
 
ctwo said:
Appreciate the heads up, and unique PW here too.

But if I may rant on a bit, I am burned out on all this. Our company enacted MFA several months ago and we have to use an app. I need to authenticate to log into my PC, to access our network, to access Teams, and then for some strange reason Outlook again, and to access our SharePoint site, and because we are a division of a corporation, I need to authenticate to access corporate resources, and sometimes I get files that are locked and require authentication. Plus I run two work PCs for different reasons, so more joy there. AND I hold meetings where I need to log into the meeting room PCs, and authenticate a few more times. What's even better is that authentication expires in 11 hours. Oh, and our 3rd party services are on board, so to approve CC charges, to order trade show services, to access our accounting SW, and then there is the periodic state and IT mandated training modules. It's a dozen times every day, and some days more than 20. I see the exclamation points on my Teams and Outlook right now, so it begins. And for some stupid reason, I keep a strong PW on my phone, and face recognition barely works. I am MFA'd out, but I feel better now, and it's about time to :ride into work.
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i have mfa authorizations over and over again when i use crap on my phone, but my laptop or work pc is non issue
 
FXCLM5 said:
i have mfa authorizations over and over again when i use crap on my phone, but my laptop or work pc is non issue
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Well, I do nothing on my phone, just calls and texts. I liked it when texts were limited to 255 characters.

My work PC,

open Outlook - MFA
open Teams - MFA again
open intranet - MFA again
open MS office - MFA again
and a few other systems that use a different MFA system.

Today, both Outlook and Teams did not take the MFA so I had to close them and start over.

My understanding is that if I were to access work assets (Outlook/Teams, etc.) on my phone, I'd have to enter MFA codes sent to my phone back into the app on my phone.
 
With barf added, I'm now up to 92 accounts in my authenticator app. I dislike when companies think "MFA" just means SMS.

Thank you for adding the options for authentication apps and suggesting members enable MFA!
 
Authenticator apps aren't the end all either. For example, Authy was compromised earlier this year.
 
Abacinator said:
Authenticator apps aren't the end all either. For example, Authy was compromised earlier this year.
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That breach exposed phone numbers but did not compromise the 2FA functionality.

Auth apps have proven to be quite secure but they are not absolutely infallible. They are vastly better than 2FA over email or SMS, however.
 
I decree everyone should do this plus I just updated mine.
 
:laughing

Seeing the email saying God had decreed I thought.....

Damn. tzrider was right :p
 
tzrider said:
There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. In all cases, the email addresses of the BARFers had been compromised in a data breach and they seem to have re-used their password on BARF, as the logs do not show that anyone's password had been changed prior to the account being misused.

To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. You can use either email or an authenticator app. I would recommend the latter, as it is much more secure. Note that some password managers have an authenticator built in, which will fill in your 2FA code for you. A good free one is BitWarden, which runs on most computer and mobile platforms.

At this time, we are not taking the step of requiring 2FA. Our admins and moderators are required to use 2FA to ensure that accounts with elevated permissions are as secure as we can make them.

If your account is hacked, I will change its password, ban the IP address from which the account was being misused and send you email. If you have questions, please reach out to me, @tzrider.
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i cannot seem to get on to edit my advertised streamliner. I would like to make changes. Help.
 
It would help to link the thread. ;)
 
We still recommend it. A small PITA to protect your self.
We have had USER accounts hacked this year.
 
Bump.

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