Is cheating possible With people hacking passwords?

How often should you change your password? Ive heard about people trying to hack sites and use your password to view cards. Is it possible to log in on two different ip adresses? Let me know your opinion... And thanks

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No one must want to reply i am just asking plenty of views though.

AceJunkie said:

How often should you change your password? Ive heard about people trying to hack sites and use your password to view cards. Is it possible to log in on two different ip adresses? Let me know your opinion... And thanks

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Once you're logged in on one IP, you are logged in. It's not possible to login while you're already logged in. (< is this what you're asking?).

I've heard that some people will stay logged in always for security reasons but really think this is taking it to the extreme. Doubt you'd ever have anything to worry about unless of course your computer has already been compromised (ie. 'keylogger' ). Some of the sites have more levels of security for login than others (I'm not very knowledgeable about it but am sure others are).

AceJunkie said:

How often should you change your password? Ive heard about people trying to hack sites and use your password to view cards. Is it possible to log in on two different ip adresses? Let me know your opinion... And thanks

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They are not hacking passwords to look at your holecards (although some high stakes players have had people see their holecards when people they thought were friends were using TeamViewer to watch them play, but they were feeding the info to the opponent, or they were the opponent)

What people are doing is hacking your poker account and stealing the money out of it by playing cash games and dumping it to an accomplice or just withdrawing it to their own funding mechanism (that doesn't work in the current US Environment) or just transferring the money to one of their many accounts and laundering it down the line or setting up 'third party trades' where they get an innocent party involved. Some people hack accounts and just blow the money in the account playing large cash games.

Online thieves are getting more sophisticated and a handful (or more than a handful) use it as a lucrative full-time job.

The best thing you can do is use a 'strong password' on not only your poker account, but all of your forums, emails, ANYTHING. And you should try and change them every 90 days or so. Strong Passwords means not using any words in the password whatsoever, and using a mix of numbers, letters, characters, CAPITAL letters.

Do not use your birthday, or obviously things like 1234

Do not click on links on Skype, or if someone is trying to show you a graph, or a screenshot of their poker balance for a trade. These are common tricks to load keyloggers or trick you into a phishing situation where you give up your password(s)

A good, free, open-source software for creating and storing (in an encrypted file) passwords is keepass. Just google it and go to the .info address to see what it is. I use it for all of my accounts so that I don't have words in my passwords, don't use the same password on two different accounts, and don't have to remember a bunch of passwords. I just have to remember my password to keepass, which is one very complex password that I have a rhyme to help me remember.

Should be illegal to log in on two different sites (say carbon and aced) and register for the same tournament.
Think this would be good reason not to leave a substantial amount of money in your poker client for extended times.
There is probably some security if it sees that you are logged in say in the USA and are logged in later that day or few days later say in mexico, I don't think it would allow it. Now if someone is a few states away, I bet there is some sort of block. That would be interesting to find out. If I ever take a trip to my families over in the Western States, if I have time I'll log in to play some poker if it let's me. See what happens.
Never thought about this before. And to see my cards. Wow. I know I have closed the blinds once or twice just to prevent anything like this. lol

Ok i was just concerned from what I have heard. I am new to online poker and would hate for the game to be ruined by cheating. I know colluding happens but what can you do. It happens everywhere. Thanks for your opinions.

It is always advisable not to use the same nickname, and the same passwords for different pages, let alone when you're talking real money

I have heard that the famous poker pro Annette Obrestad ( Annette 15) have had her poker account hacked.So be calefult,especially when you are succeed in playing poker and have made a lot of money.

If there's no period of wait when you guess the wrong password, and someone has your username, what they can do is type in your username, then write a bot to test every single password combination... Brute force attack. But it takes time if your password is long enough. I don't know of any way to counter it. Just a long password with as many things in it as possible. Can you use alternate symbols on ftp? Like §?

One of the biggest risks is when people use public wifi. It's not that hard for someone with some technical knowledge to intercept unencrypted data.

It might be convenient to be sitting at Starbucks near a local university where you can check out the hotties and play poker while sipping on your grande caramel mocha...but you're putting yourself at a high risk of being compromised.

Public wifi is fine for checking out stuff that isn't sensitive like financial info. For anything sensitive, do it at home. If you use wifi at home, make sure it's password protected at the very least.