peeriebryan Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 For those of you who use hotmail; it might be an idea to change your passwords Hotmail accounts posted online - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8291268.stmThousands of Hotmail accounts leaked online - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352189/thousands-of-hotmail-accounts-leaked-onlineThousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked - http://thenextweb.com/2009/10/05/thousands-of-hotmail-passwords-reportedly-leaked-online/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Thanx for dat, changed mine, but do every few weeks, tis best policy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 And not only Hotmail. We're all doomed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 Way back yesteryear a phish from 2001 was sitting in a cybercafe, especially in the Far East, and plugging your email into a "made-up-form" to allow you access to Hotmail or Yahoo. How things have moved ahead. On screen re-piped to make it appear real from nothing but a "drive-by" website rendering! Magic. You gotta hand it to these guys! Some clean clean programming there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamnSaxon Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 ^Cool programming, okay, but so depressing that it always has to be malicious. If I'd ever written a virus, it would have quietly defragged your hard drive in the background, or something useful like that. Out there in the all-too-real world, you get people who'll cheerfully encrypt your files and extort real money out of you to get them back. There's a definite difference of approach, methinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted October 6, 2009 Report Share Posted October 6, 2009 I just stand back for the fact that this ain't some s-kiddie scanning blindly and attempting to ram some 'dirt' up your back pipe having downloaded 5-year old nonsense off the web. Rather this is a top-of-the-range 0day attempt *cough* success in playing the technology out there off itself. The tech isn't even top-of-the range making this even more sucessfull .. it's standard and been bumbling down our pipes onto our computers for the last forever! Online security is big business from both ends of the spectrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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