[78-L] [78-C] Re: Mike Biel hacked

[David Lennick]

These have all been off list..I received 3 this morning, all in reference to 
older e-mails, not all on 78-L (one was "re" a personal e-mail from back in July).

dl


On 2/12/2019 10:48 AM, Jeffrey Lichtman jeff at swazoo.com [78-c] wrote:
> Someone's email has been hacked, but it probably isn't Mike's. Usually
> when this happens, some sort of malware infects someone's machine and
> uses that person's address book to send a bunch of messages. The "From:"
> address is spoofed, i.e. faked, using one of those addresses, so that it
> looks like it came from one person's machine but actually came from
> another. This makes it hard to figure out whose machine has been hacked,
> which is the purpose of the spoofing. It looks like it came from Mike,
> but probably came from somewhere else.
>
> 78-L strips off attachments, which means that any email we get through
> the list is safe. Be careful with any emails you get off-list. Also, be
> sure your virus protection and firewall software are up to date.
>
> On 2/12/2019 6:38 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Mike Biel's e-mail has been hacked. Do not open anything with an attachment
>> claiming to be from him.
>>
>> dl
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