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Subject: Re: Changing Email ? WARNING : HackerZ around

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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