I noticed in the occupations thread that a few folks on this list a computer security professionals. I just had a disturbing experience - I logged into my web page to find a directory full of crap that I didn't put there. (Not to put on airs, but my crap is a a notch above "free-ringtones".) Pouring over the directories I found a couple of other links to pharm and mortgage sites.
Thankfully I'm on the site via FTP almost every day - and sort directories by date last modified. That is inteded to get me to the active directories that I'm working out of, so when an old directory showed up at the top of the list it made me wonder. My ISP says that the intruder probably guessed my password. No mention of the user name (which is a unique combination of letters.) They said that the fact that the password was all lower case made is susceptible to being 'guessed') The password was basically just 8 random letters, no numbers or other characters, all lower case, but still just random. Like gossbrom or heplchat. So now I have a password that 1RuM-Pl**StilK()()(SkiNnnN! would be proud of. (Don't try it - not even close - waaaaay too simple.) So - is that explanation plausible? I find it hard to believe that someone could guess that well and wonder if there was some other breach. - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
