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Re: <SPAM> Re: user account compromise?


From: Dick Jacobson <Dick.Jacobson () NDUS NODAK EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:08:57 -0500

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Cal Frye wrote:

We also had one of the where the password was changed but the activity
retuurned.  Our email guru said the person must have maintained a
connection over the period of the password change - so check the
connections also - or the user simply changed their password back to the
original (even though they said they didn't).

Barros, Jacob wrote:
Ken and all.  That was it.  He did reply to one of those phishing scams.
No more than 12 hours before the SPAM was launched.  Any non-internal
legal advice would be appreciated.

Be careful changing his password -- don't email it to him, as the spammer may
have set up forwarding and might receive a copy of the notice ;-)

--
Regards,
-- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College

  www.calfrye.com,  www.pitalabs.com

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert
Einstein (1879-1955)




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