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[05omegav6]

Any Hotmail users noticed anything strange this evening?

My inbox had several Delivery failure notifications for items I never sent, and sent box had nearly 30 messages, all about 22:10, with single word headings such as Pro'cured and really and easily...

I wasn't logged on at the time, and have deleted all the erroneous messages in and out...

Owt else to be done

[cleggy]

I has that with BT who use Yahoo, and they had been hacked using my E Mail account to send spam which bounced back to me when not delivered.
I had to contact them to change the password not easy with Bt but got there in the end

[Stemo]

When I read the title I thought "Surely not...hotmail?  Issues? Never".

[Gaffers]

Sounds like your account is being used to send spam.  Change your password and scan your computer for malware.

[TheBoy]

Is it in your Sent Items as having sent? If not, I suspect somebody just spoofed your email addr, which is very easy, esp if you publish it on any public websites

[chrisgixer]

Taxi Al OOF sirname
Title:St range
The Dark Lord will arise again with his servants Al....

You have been emailed off line

BBC link follows.




Someone's having a laugh Al.

[aaronjb]

When I read the title I thought "Surely not...hotmail?  Issues? Never".

When I read the title I thought "Hotmail? Who still uses that?"

[Gaffers]

When I read the title I thought "Surely not...hotmail?  Issues? Never".

When I read the title I thought "Hotmail? Who still uses that?"

Plenty of people still use it, I can't fathom why, but then again I still use Yahoo

[tunnie]

Hotmail 

[Gaffers]

I wonder if it's Al's sideline business.....

Al@hot-male.com

 

[05omegav6]

Chortle, chortle, murmur, murmur

Not actually the published account

[05omegav6]

Sounds like your account is being used to send spam.  Change your password and scan your computer for malware.

Done, neither scan found anything

Just to add, there's only a handful of you whose email addresses I have, so if you receive any random shit, just bin it

[Stemo]

Sounds like your account is being used to send spam.  Change your password and scan your computer for malware.

Done, neither scan found anything

Just to add, there's only a handful of you whose email addresses I have, so if you receive any random shit, just bin it

As opposed to the usual random shit?

[Gaffers]

Sounds like your account is being used to send spam.  Change your password and scan your computer for malware.

Done, neither scan found anything

Just to add, there's only a handful of you whose email addresses I have, so if you receive any random shit, just bin it

In which case your address is being spoofed unless you have a particularly weak password

[05omegav6]

Password is/was reasonable, ie a mixture of things mean absolutely nothing, nothing fancy, but equally nothing obvious either 

Speaking to a recipient, is was a link to an article about weight loss or some such shit

Owt else to be done?

[Gaffers]

Password is/was reasonable, ie a mixture of things mean absolutely nothing, nothing fancy, but equally nothing obvious either 

Speaking to a recipient, is was a link to an article about weight loss or some such shit

Owt else to be done?

Was said recipient in your address book or sent history?

[05omegav6]

Everyone in my contact list it would seem

[Gaffers]

Well they most likely got in to your account then.  If it was a string of words it is likely they threw a dictionary attack at your password hash.  Just straight words are not the most secure.  Using symbols, capitals and numbers in your password forces a hacker to use Rainbow tables to hack your password hash.  Viable RT limit is currently about 8 characters so such passwords of at least 9 preferably 10+ are de rigeur these days

All about hashes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

Here is a simplified(!) description of how rainbow tables work:
http://kestas.kuliukas.com/RainbowTables/

[05omegav6]

It's twelve characters and mixed letters /numbers... no birthdays etc

[Gaffers]

It's twelve characters and mixed letters /numbers... no birthdays etc

Well they must have got your password from somewhere to get access to your distro list.  Worthwhile changing it for something with symbols as well as caps and numbers 

[aaronjb]

I sense.. a discussion on passwords.



(Source: http://xkcd.com/936/)

[Gaffers]

We've been over this