That's a damn beating waiting to happen. As if there's not enough to check on...
Cheers! Pat On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<refresh-austin%[email protected]> > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Pat Ramsey Resident Geek - Web Design and Accessibility Specialist Cospace cospaceatx.com [email protected] @pat_ramsey Cospace... Meet Here http://cospaceatx.com (512) 814-8379 -- 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
