medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Does this happen more with people at universities using institutional e-mail addresses?
I ask because one of my brothers is a PhD in a local university. One night he was working late and noticed that someone else logged onto the system.
Since he was the only person in the building, he did a bit of detective work and managed to trace the intruder back to Singapore before the trail
disappeared. Whoever it was already had the universitys codes and passwords and was pillaging the internal records for more. Needless to say, my
brother dealt with them aggressively.
Makes me wonder if schools might be more suceptable than others.
George the Less
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:06:03 -0800, John McChesney-Young wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Charles Giguere wrote:
>> I received a nuisance letter purporting to come from this list, from a
>> "Katie Clark". Is this a nuisance particular to our computer or has it
>> afflicted other members, too?
>This type of problem has been going on for at least a year. See:
>http://taint.org/2007/12/21/171309a.html
>http://chris-linfoot.net/d6plinks/CWLT-7FGAS7
>http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Chats-and-Contacts-en/browse_thread/thread/bdd8f3d7e1909a39
>In one way or another spammers get hold of webmail usernames and
>associated passwords and use those legitimate accounts to send their
>spams to everyone in the owners' address books, in this case including
>the medieval religion. Ms. Clark's account has been hacked, in other
>words, and she should change her password (and check her vacation
>message, since one person I know of had the spam inserted there while
>she was away from e-mail).
>John
>--
>John McChesney-Young ~ jmccyoung at gmail dot com ~ Berkeley, California
> http://jmccyoung.blogspot.com
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