All, Today I almost caused some major issues for one of my clients. I do a lot of work for firms where they outsource some of the coding tasks to myself and others. I work and take direction from a main client services project leader and on occasion from an internal IT contact. The firm deals with the end client.
Today I was contacted via email from someone I worked with on a project last summer. He (let's call him Guy X) and I worked a lot of after hours so I added his non-office email to my address book. This afternoon he emailed to tell me they received an email from Rackspace stating site had been hacked and he was asking for my help to run though some checks on the site and to change all the password just to make sure. Oh and when I had the new passwords email him back and he would update the internal folks on the new password. About an hour later I was still checking files and database content from the site. Surprisingly I still have FTP and DB access. And more surprisingly I had not found anything. I received a call from someone else with the same firm. They called to chat about one of our current projects. During the conversation I mentioned about the Rackspace hack and how that was my priority because Guy X was waiting for the new password but I would get to her edits afterwards. At this point she paused and spoke very clearly. Guy X has not worked at the company for over 6 months. P- -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
