----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan <[email protected]> > > At 4:02 PM -0700 6/22/2012, glen wrote: >> My concern is security. If some spammer has access to my address book and > can send spam spoofed from friends and associates' email address what else > do they know; SS numbers, CC numbers, bank accounts, passwords??? > > Well, that depends on where the breach occurred, of course. If the spammer > harvested an address book (or just grabbed From addresses) from the Yahoo > server, then that's all they have. But if they had full access to your > computer (as a Mac, not likely) ... or if they had full access to your > friend's computer (as a PC, quite quite likely) then all bets are off... > Once you have access, it's trivial to grab up turbotax files, cookie > databases, etc. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> please do remember to tell your clients to change their passwords too > > on the mail servers I'm working with, the most frequent reason for out > going spam is caused by peoples accounts have been taken over by spammer > due to weak passwords > Follow up: -- Just received a second spoofed spam from a business client sent to my business address. My business email account is web based Yahoo Mail and I could not find a way to check the all the headers. However I could check who else it was sent to. This client is in the entertainment business and many of the 24 other addresses the spam was sent to have local entertainment venue domain names which I have never emailed. So it looks like it was my client's email Yahoo account that was compromised and the spam was sent to local addresses on his computer. Switching gears, reviewing my friend's spam send to my personal [email protected] address I found the six other addresses the spam was sent to match addresses of family members and other friends of the friend. And once again no one I ever sent an email to. So I looks like the friends Yahoo account was also compromised. Very disturbing when spammers are accessing your friends and business associates email addresses. Thanks once again to all. And as Tina suggests use strong passwords on all your accounts. --glen -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
