The Friday 2004-11-05 at 21:15 -0500, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Someone, apparently, hacked my email account at Bellsouth last week sometime... We of course have no idea how, since they (Bellsouth's alleged "Techs" ) spent all the timefrom the start, telling me it was
... Ough. Probably someone has started doing dictionary attacks on mail addresses scooped elsewere. :-/
If anyone has a suggestion for making an 8 character password that is reasonably safe or hard to guess w/o being too hard for me to remember , I welcome such suggestions.
Good passwords are dificult to remember, used on only one account, and changed periodically.
Now that we finally have confirmation that Bellsouth was the culprit, I shall finish my transformation to all 9.2 boxes... hehehe
Not really the culprit... except by being so thickheaded not to accept the fact of the break in. Measures could be stopping and detecting dictionary attacks, ie, rejecting connecions from addresses repeatedly trying an acount within an interval. And of course, not using plain password logins.
Since they kept insisting it was not them but my computers that were causing the problems we stopped the installs.. to be certain .
why is it that Windows admins refuse to accept they are the problem, or at least the problem is at their end??It shouldn't have taken over a week to ferret out the culprit. Anyone who looked at the accounts inbox
Not really windows admins, but any bad admin over there. Perhaps you did not talk with admins, but with "call center" types. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson