[V8] Weird E-Mails

[Brian K. Ullrich]

Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc are ALL vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
These are targeted attacks used to obtain the existing password of an
account without changing it, thus keeping the account owner in the dark
until something untoward occurs. In all likelihood, Jason, your account was
probably chosen at random. These types of attacks require a fair amount of
skill to successfully execute, but there is no shortage of unscrupulous
individuals who can do this. Most of these attacks originate from overseas,
and are not always designed to take control of an account actively.
Sometimes it's used as a front door to gather more information about a
person in order to obtain personally identifiable information (PII), which
can be used to commit identity theft.

Anyone who uses a public domain/"free" email account is at risk for this.

Just .02 from a long-time IT guy.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Wilkerson [mailto:wilke_jb at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:08 PM
To: cobram at juno.com; V8 list
Subject: Re: [V8] Weird E-Mails

Sorry, I've been at this internet thing for about 10 years - but have never
had this problem - ever - so in turn I have never had reason to 'guard'
anything.  Any thoughts on how they could have gotten into my e-mail
account?  I don't forward anything, I'm really carful what I open and I have
a pretty decent password.  Anyway, thanks for letting me know.

--- On Tue, 4/20/10, cobram at juno.com <cobram at juno.com> wrote:

> From: cobram at juno.com <cobram at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Weird E-Mails
> To: wilke_jb at yahoo.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 11:49 PM
> Part of the reason you make yourself
> and all in your address book
> vulnerable can be seen in the header of your message to the
> list, you've
> just broadcast every e-mail you Cc out to the entire web
> universe.
> Using BCC instead in the future would be more prudent.
> Someone with other than noble ends can cull this
> information to spam or
> run a scam on the good folks at Merck, Thermadyne, Aleecorp
> etc.
> 
> As the sarge on Hill Street used to say, "Be careful out
> there."
> 
> BCNU,
> Yahoo nuked my website with no warning.
> Fight organized crime: Re-elect no  one...
> 
> 
> Jason Wilkerson <wilke_jb at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> > To everyone,
> >    I think my yahoo e-mail account was
> recently 'hacked'.  I 
> > apologize for any strange e-mails you guys may have
> gotten.  Please 
> > know it wasn't from me and don't open them and
> especially don't 
> > click on any links in any of these e-mails. 
> Sorry about this, I 
> > really don't know what happened.  Thanks.
> > 
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