[Year 12 IT Apps] (no subject)

Tue Apr 16 12:52:16 EST 2013

Oh wiser ones,

I'm not much of a security buff, so I'm interested: what are the various methods spammers and crooks use to infiltrate our email addresses?

My guesses are brute-force / dictionary attacks (but I imagine yahoo et al. block repeated guesses or use captcha), phishing, malware/Trojans (not sure what these would do - capture keystrokes?).

And do http://www.seller-service.com/ (for example) know they are hosting whatever resides at '/qlsnthcd/1tni5/gyqid3oo/x71m/1695jqh' or has it been snuck on to their server (and again, how? SQL injection leading to access to admin panel?)

Slightly off-topic, but loosely relevant to U4O2...and asking here means I don't spend the rest of the afternoon Googling it :)

Aside: Why does it always seem to be Yahoo?

Thanks for anything that abates my curiousity,

Jackson Bates
Waverley Christian College

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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:23:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Deborah Reardon <deborah_reardon at yahoo.com.au>
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Hi folks. It seems Yahoo has been hacked (again), and spammers are infiltrating this list.
Actually, I've seen it happening in all sorts of forums.

Obviously,  please don't follow the links, and don't blame people whose email addresses have been hijacked.

Cheers
Mark

On 15 April 2013 14:23, Deborah Reardon <deborah_reardon at yahoo.com.au>wrote:

> http://www.seller-service.com/qlsnthcd/1tni5/gyqid3oo/x71m/1695jqh
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:49:09 +1000
From: "Robert Hind" <robert at yinnar.com>
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Problems with Yahoo mail again. Hacked? Virus/Trojan? Have had similar personal emails from Yahoo friends with Yahoo accounts.

Obviously don't follow any links.

Robert Hind (Retired) OOF, GOM, COF
ex Ashwood and Traralgon
robert at yinnar.com

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