Author: Jerry Jones
Date: 00:23:24 08/01/02
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On July 31, 2002 at 19:24:58, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 31, 2002 at 09:31:26, Albert Silver wrote: > >>On July 31, 2002 at 07:52:50, Jerry Jones wrote: >> >>>Hey guys, you will not believe this, but my E Mail account got hacked, yes >>>Hacked! >>>The hacker changed my password and my password retrieval questions / answers and >>>I can not access this E mail account anymore. >>> >>>Where did I deserve that ? Is it someone visiting this forum ? >>>I use this E mail account almost only for this forum. >>> >>>I wish to change my E mail account or to keep the same E Mail and retrieve the >>>original password. >>>I mailed Yahoo abuse about this, but no reply (yet) >>> >>>JJ >> >>I strongly doubt it is a forum member. Could be some hacker attack on the Yahoo >>system, in which case you'll probably not be the only one. I have Norton >>Internet Security installed here, and though I only access from the privacy of >>my residency (not some big company in other words), I get at least a half dozen >>invasion attempts every day. Mind you, my computer isn't on 24h/day either. > >My ftp site gets THOUSANDS of attempted hacks every day. Our business has a web >site and an ftp site. The attacks on my site are 20 times more than the attacks >on the business. I suspect it is because my site address if found all over the >internet. > >Shrug. Your FTP site is public and anonymous, why would anybody try to hack it ? Jokers, wags and jackasses may want to update your site with e.g. adult content But maybe these attacks are software-generated and caused by browser or protocol or security certificate conflicts ? JJ
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