[jhb] Re: Hacker strikes again.
- From: "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:22:41 +0100
It's a social networking site for young people to tell their mates what they
are watching on TV or what they had for dinner last night. <g>
Actually it's not bad if used well. You join facebook and look for any of
your mates that are on it. If they accept your invitation to be friends you
now have a Faceboook web page which they can see and post to - and vice
versa. Essentially it's a personal forum and therefore handy for those who
don't have any web page facilities or abilities. It's better than email
because one post goes to all your friends but I guess most haven't heard of
Freelists which is much the same but in a different format. Facebook was
just better at advertising itself and it's now become an icon.
The strength/weakness of Facebook is that as soon as you accept a friend on
your page you are shown a list of his/her friends to add to your own friends
list. This is fine if they only have a few but I put one of the IVAO UK guys
on my list the other day and he had 350 friends on his list. It took ages to
decline all these.
I have a Facebook page but I don't use it much. I've set up a JHB group
within that page which is limited to us only - at least those on Facebook.
It's a standby facility we could use if this email list goes down - rare but
it has happened.
bones
bones@xxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 11 July 2010 09:54
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: Hacker strikes again.
At least two dinosaur then. Well I know what is is but I'm bu....ed if I
can see the point of it all.
Gerry Winskill
Frank Turley wrote:
> Sorry to be a dinosaur, but I don't even know what Facebook is!
>
> Frank T.
>
> At 19:23 10/07/2010, you wrote:
>> AIM.COM is the home page for an instant messaging service, which looks
>> as though it's owned by AOL. Interestingly though they will allow
>> users to log in using their facebook log-in whch suggests to me AIM
>> could also be behind the instant messaging system within facebook.
>>
>> Check your facebook privacy settings - I have all of mine set to
>> 'Friends Only' - that could be your source.
>>
>> Another potential source: there's two avsim.net addresses among Bones
>> list. Could it be the same disgruntled idiots that took Avsim down?
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Frank Turley
>> Sent: 10 July 2010 19:05
>> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jhb] Re: Hacker strikes again.
>>
>> I wish there was some way these pests could be tracked down and
>> destroyed.
>>
>> Frank T.
>>
>>
>> At 15:48 10/07/2010, you wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately I received four more spam messages today
>>> purporting to come from Frank. This list also got hit by two
>>> attempts to post to it.
>>>
>>> As with the last posts the author is said to be Frank Turley
>>> at a mythical @aim address. Posts were sent to me at both my
>>> bones address and my jhb address plus this freelists address.
>>> In each case the posts were also directed to other people in
>>> broad alphabetical groups - which suggests an address book
>>> has been hacked.
>>>
>>> The trouble is that it is probably not Frank's address book
>>> that has been hit. The usual trick is to get at someone's
>>> address book then pick a name from this at random (in this
>>> case Franks) and then sent out spam using this as the false
>>> source.
>>>
>>> It is also obvious that the hacked address book comes from
>>> someone connected with Flight Sim (as previously thought)
>>> because I recognise many addresses from early FS days and the
>>> UK scenery group.
>>>
>>> The post sent to HC@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:HC@xxxxxxxxxx> also
>>> went to other G-H-I addresses:
>>>
>>> greg.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> Hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> Hargreaves.Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> haroon@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> HC@xxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> help@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> helpline@xxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> hjcurtis@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> hughturley@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> i.gallacher@xxxxxxxx <mailto:i.gallacher@xxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> The post sent to bones went to J-K-L addresses:
>>>
>>> bones@xxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> jud6e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> k.roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> Katherine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> humphreyskim@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> kirsty.cullen@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> library-files-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> library-files-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> Lisa.Horn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> And the post to Freelists went to M-N addresses:
>>>
>>> Miguelbernardo@xxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> mikemasser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> monirgeadah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> music__studio@xxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> nglossop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> Niall_Byrne@xxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> albions@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>>
>>> norman_swardeston@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> I recognise a few of the addresses above - Howard Curtis,
>>> Monir, John Farrie, Norman Blackburn, Ken Jude, Ian Gallagher
>>> - plus there are help lines for Saitek and Avsim included
>>> (the hacker was obviously too lazy to remove these).
>>>
>>> Sadly I don't think there is anything we can do about this
>>> hacking. It would be a stroke of pure luck if we were to find
>>> our mutual friend who might have Niall Byrne, Lisa Horn and
>>> others in his address book. Having said that the FS world is
>>> almost solidly a male environment so I guess the three or
>>> four female names on the above list would track the owner
>>> down fairly rapidly - if only we knew where to start.
>>>
>>> bones
>>>
>>> bones@xxxxxxx <mailto:bones@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/>
>>> Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2992 - Release
>>> Date: 07/09/10 19:36:00
>>
>>
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/>
>> Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2993 - Release Date:
>> 07/10/10 07:36:00
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