No worries Carlos, It happens to the best of us, and you are not the only OLPC/Sugar contributor that this has happened to in the past week.
The Internet is a scary place sometimes and these things happen. I wish you luck in regaining control of your identity and identifying the source, but do not worry, IMHO, your reputation at OLPC/Sugar remains unsullied. cjl On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Carlo Falciola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm relally sorry for the huge noise for this rogue message, It was > definitely a fake, so please throw it away asap. > I'm still investigating his origin , because I still not foung anythng in > my pc. > The other suspect was my addresses partially stolen via BT from my mobile > during a business trip in HU... > > once more sorry for this. > > regards > ciao carlo > > ________________________________ > Da: Chris Leonard <[email protected]> > A: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Inviato: Sabato 16 Giugno 2012 21:07 > Oggetto: Re: [OLPC library] link from Carlo Falciola "dangerous" > > Carlo himself is well-known, he is one of our most prolific Italian > localizers. > > There was a flurry of messages from his e-mail address to OLPC and > Sugar litss (to which he is subscribed). The messages carried > differing links (I would guess they were all dangerous, but seeing the > flood, I assumed that and did not actually test). > > The general suspicion is either a (non-intrusive) spoofing by a > spambot or a compromise of his mail client/account by a spambot > carried by malware. Opinions differ, I am of the opinion that since > it targeted specific lists to which he is subscribed that it was a > compromise (that grabbed his mailing history or address book) and not > just a simple header spoof. > > In any event, treat messages (and especially links) from his address > with suspicion until further notice. Hopefully he will regain control > of his identity. > > cjl > Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> The link listed in Carlo Falciola's message is listed by McAfee Security >> as a dangerous website. Does anyone else know anything about it? >> >> Janissa Balcomb >> Laptops to Lesotho Inc. >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> >> Library Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1 >> ************************************** >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 05:14:08 +0100 (BST) >> From: Carlo Falciola <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected], [email protected], >> [email protected] >> Subject: [OLPC library] (no subject) >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> http://www.ap404.com/wp-content/themes/unite/googlemail.html >> ___________________________________________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Library mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > > _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
