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JayPee
Joined: 15 Jan 2004
Posts: 2916
Location: Excited Mets Fan

2/28/13 12:35 PM

Hey Evan

I see both my emails are still in your address book!

Too bad I only know this 'cause you've apparently been hacked!

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dfcas
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 2815
Location: hillbilly heaven

2/28/13 12:37 PM

Me too

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Evan Marks
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1652
Location: NYC

2/28/13 5:01 PM

Fixed now. Shit happens.

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Rickk
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
Posts: 528
Location: Montreal

2/28/13 6:09 PM

So, inquiring minds would like to know

From one TTFer to another:

..once one's email contacts unfortunately falls prey to hackers (or bots or whatever u call them), how can we swiftly rectify the situation for ourselves and for all our sorry contacts, - short of shutting down our email address and opening another?

Thanks in advance!
Rickk

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5096
Location: Nashua, NH

3/1/13 6:23 AM

I was spoofed a few years ago...

...and while it was a major pain for a week or two, whoever it was apparently moved on to another victim and everything went back to normal.

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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield

3/1/13 12:17 PM

Step one:
Change your password to your email account as soon as you think you've been hacked.

Ongoing:
Do not use automatic logins
Try to have every account accessed with unique passwords.
--The passwords can be similar like AbcCF123! for CyclingForum and AbcGo123! for Google, but try to be MUCH more creative than those examples.
Change your passwords regularly.
--This is a challenge. You will need a list of your accounts and names and basically dedicate some time to the task every month. Browsers these days let you save groups of tabs and then open them all up at once. That can be a method for "checklisting" the process; i.e. change the password, logout, close the tab. One problem I have is multiple Google accounts, and multiple private mail accounts for that matter. (Multiple accounts in general to separate for instance, shopping from dating from technical from professional.)

There are password management tools. sourceforge.org has open source tools that are "community policed" as a defense against malware.

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stan
Joined: 14 Feb 2004
Posts: 467

3/2/13 11:41 AM

The thing about passwords is crazy. Between my home/personal accounts, company/work accounts, and all my work client accounts, I can't keep track of them with having several notebook pages filled. Many require unique characters that don't repeat or are sequential

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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real

3/2/13 2:26 PM

At least at work we have gone to access cards and simple pin codes. It used be a nightmare because of the length and having to constantly change them.

For stuff like the CF I don't have anything tough and have not changed it in years. Email and such is a different story.

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5096
Location: Nashua, NH

3/2/13 6:08 PM

Nothing can protect you from spoofing

That's when someone uses your email address as the return address on their Spam emails. You get bombarded with angry replies and auto-responses and there's nothing you can do about it except close the account or ride it out.

That doesn't sound like what's happened in the case at hand, however.

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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3234
Location: Midland, MI

3/2/13 7:59 PM

Spoofed


quote:
That's when someone uses your email address as the return address


No doubt. I sometimes get e-mail from myself with no evidence that my account has been hacked. Just spoofed. I've never gotten a complaint from anyone about spam from me so there is nothing to ride out (fortunately).

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