why not get really nasty, now call up the FBI... larry
-- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:41 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Hacker revenge > > > So, last week all of the sudden, none of our dial up users > could get to > Hotmail. Hotmail being fairly popular you can imagine the > amout of calls we > got. Well the problem stretched on for about a week and we > actually lost a > few customers over it. It took us a week to find someone at > Hotmail and get > someone to tell us why. Apparently one of our dialup users > was trying to > brute force hack Hotmail. > So we started pouring over the logs and traced back the phone > number the > hacks were coming from. So we called up the number today and > talked to the > guy who answered. The number is his sons phone line... > The guy was super pissed, and said something to the effect of > "I'm 55 years > old, I'm from the old school. I'm going to take care of > him!". That kids > gonna get it :) So the guy called back and said he ripped the > kids line out > and took the computer and is waiting for him to get home from school. > > Ahhh Sysadmin's strike back! :) > > jon > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
