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Re: Another request for passwords
From: elfchief () lupine org (That Whispering Wolf...)
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 12:24:53 +0000 (BST)
I got this in the mail today (10-23). Seems like someone is knocking on io.com now.
[some deleted]
Received: from (helix.net [142.231.37.2]) by trance.helix.net
[poof -- more deleted]
Do not tell your system administrator. I am conducting an investigation on your system. Thank you
At least one user on one of my systems got a simular message yesterday -- The actual content was different, but along the same lines. In my case, the person said they were hacking accounts, but promised not to hack that user's if they'd send the password file in email. What catches my eye is that the user to which our users were asked to respond was @helix.net, the same host that this mail passed through, above. I dismissed it as a forgery, though, as the message had a umn.edu message ID, instead of a helix.net message ID. I don't know what's going on, but I don't like it. We're safe from this particular threat (aren't shadowed passwords grand?), but I still have to wonder what else is on the horizon. [Wonderful -- We've gone from computer hacking to social hacking... What's next?]
Current thread:
- Another request for passwords Douglas R. Floyd (Oct 22)
- Re: Another request for passwords Charles Howes (Oct 23)
- Re: Another request for passwords That Whispering Wolf... (Oct 23)
- Re: Another request for passwords Charles Howes (Oct 23)
- Re: Another request for passwords christopher williams (Oct 24)
- Re: Another request for passwords Brett Watson (Oct 25)
- Re: Another request for passwords Charles Howes (Oct 23)
- Stupid crackers exploiting stupid users der Mouse (Oct 23)
- Re: Stupid crackers exploiting stupid users Peter Van Epp (Oct 23)
- Re: Stupid crackers exploiting stupid users Charles Howes (Oct 23)
- Re: Stupid crackers exploiting stupid users pluvius (Oct 25)
- Re: Stupid crackers exploiting stupid users Charles Howes (Oct 26)
- Sun Mouse Bug David J. Bianco (Oct 26)
- Network Volumetric Analysis (NVA) software Frank R. Swift (Oct 26)