Dude, I hear ya. Really I had to go sit in the other room when this happened. I'm sure the client would have understood but it could have effect our relationship and lost me some money.
P- On May 26, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Pat Ramsey wrote: > 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] > > [ 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 -- 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
