gmail hackers

[macabethiel]

Just got a notification from Google that someone in Buenos Aires tried to hijack my g mail account !

Have logged in and changed the password. They blocked it as I.P. address was suspect.

[solarman216]

did you use the link supplied by the notification, if so you may need professional help, if you logged on directly in you usual manner then you are probably OK, Rick

[rustic]

I was told my Lloyds bank account was being hacked and I had to log in through their link
You just had to confirm your password and all would be ok.

I haven't even got a Lloyds bank account.
These are of course Phishing scams

I get regular ones for my email being put on hold, strange that these tend to happen soon after I have gone on to sites like " Go compare" or similar sites

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by solarman216

did you use the link supplied by the notification, if so you may need professional help, if you logged on directly in you usual manner then you are probably OK, Rick

Logged into the Google mail site directly I think ??

[jims-terrano]

I'd go direct in again and change your password again just to be sure.

[clivvy]

yup, that does sound like a scam to me, so as Jim says log back into Google from a fresh internet page and change your credentials.

[rustic]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

Just got a notification from Google that someone in Buenos Aires tried to hijack my g mail account !

Have logged in and changed the password. They blocked it as I.P. address was suspect.

Even opening this email, might have put some spyware on your computer, so when ever or however you change your password, they could still have access to it.

So do a virus check, and if clear change your password again.

Best really to change your password regularly.
But don't make it too simple for you to remember, include numbers, and capital letters.

Eg if your password was NISSAN, you could have N155AN or combinations eg n1s5AN however there are password breaker programmes that would try these combinations in a matter of a few seconds. But better to have extra digits and numbers as well, in different places.

Your email account if hacked could allow hackers to request forgotten passwords to bank accounts.
Also if you have a Face book account, if you say I had my 50th birthday party yesterday, they then have your date of birth.
Also your Uncle, could well have your Mother's maiden name...
Place of birth, can be guessed if you live close to your family...
Amazing what little information you give away each day.


Rustic

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by rustic

Even opening this email, might have put some spyware on your computer, so when ever or however you change your password, they could still have access to it.

So do a virus check, and if clear change your password again.

Best really to change your password regularly.
But don't make it too simple for you to remember, include numbers, and capital letters.

Eg if your password was NISSAN, you could have N155AN or combinations eg n1s5AN however there are password breaker programmes that would try these combinations in a matter of a few seconds. But better to have extra digits and numbers as well, in different places.

Your email account if hacked could allow hackers to request forgotten passwords to bank accounts.
Also if you have a Face book account, if you say I had my 50th birthday party yesterday, they then have your date of birth.
Also your Uncle, could well have your Mother's maiden name...
Place of birth, can be guessed if you live close to your family...
Amazing what little information you give away each day.


Rustic

OK I always lie about my date of birth but not the year.
Most of my passwords are not actually words and if they are as on non banking websites I tend to write the word backwards !
Also when I use numbers I go for prime numbers whenever I can.

Of course just because I am Paranoid does not mean they are not out to get me !

[rustic]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

OK I always lie about my date of birth but not the year.
Most of my passwords are not actually words and if they are as on non banking websites I tend to write the word backwards !
Also when I use numbers I go for prime numbers whenever I can.

Of course just because I am Paranoid does not mean they are not out to get me !

What gets me though, is the silver surfers that have only just started to use the internet, maybe set up by their off spring, with a list of basic instructions on how to use it.
Just imagine receiving an email, you need to log in to this site to re-activate your email account. They then panic, thinking we won't be able to see our Grandkids anymore in Australia... Log in and...
Under those circumstances they probably don't yet use internet banking, but may compromise other personal information.

I was speaking recently to an IT technician, he was telling me that one of the modules was how to hack a computer...

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by rustic

What gets me though, is the silver surfers that have only just started to use the internet, maybe set up by their off spring, with a list of basic instructions on how to use it.

I might be a silver surfer but I bit my teeth on computing in 1967 Bradford University Chemical Engineering Department had a Digital / Analog Hybrid it was awesome.

The mainframe Digital took up a whole floor of the Uni Building !

I spent hours typing my own punch cards using Fortran 1V oh the fun when you typed a letter O instead of the number 0.

Now I can't even remember how to do Basic !
How knowledge atrophies with lack of use.

[rustic]

Originally Posted by macabethiel

I might be a silver surfer but I bit my teeth on computing in 1967 Bradford University Chemical Engineering Department had a Digital / Analog Hybrid it was awesome.

The mainframe Digital took up a whole floor of the Uni Building !

I spent hours typing my own punch cards using Fortran 1V oh the fun when you typed a letter O instead of the number 0.

Now I can't even remember how to do Basic !
How knowledge atrophies with lack of use.

If... then... loop... return...
Yep done that, during my Electronics Engineering days at Manchester, you get your cards... and then drop them on the floor, and you have to sort them out again
I hated Fortran, Basic was actually called a high level language at the time.

Just to add a few numbers, and find their average, took about twenty or more cards.
Talking of technology, my first Casio calculator had a glass tubed valve with green fluorescent digits, and two red hot wires that ran the width of the display.
You had to turn off the calculator between calculations, otherwise it wouldn't last for the whole lecture.

Happy days. It cost me £32 plus cases of AA batteries at the time, and my weeks part time wages were only £25

I remember my slide rule, still have it, there was always a problem, you got the right number, but it was often a factor of 10 out, since if you got to one end of the rule, you had to return to the other end, and continue the calculation, the problem was depending on which way you were going it was either x10 or divide by 10, I could never remember which was which.

I bet anybody under 40 doesn't know what a slide rule is, unless they have seen one in a museum.

[macabethiel]

Originally Posted by rustic

If... then... loop... return...
Yep done that, during my Electronics Engineering days at Manchester, you get your cards... and then drop them on the floor, and you have to sort them out again
I hated Fortran, Basic was actually called a high level language at the time.

Just to add a few numbers, and find their average, took about twenty or more cards.
Talking of technology, my first Casio calculator had a glass tubed valve with green fluorescent digits, and two red hot wires that ran the width of the display.
You had to turn off the calculator between calculations, otherwise it wouldn't last for the whole lecture.

Happy days. It cost me £32 plus cases of AA batteries at the time, and my weeks part time wages were only £25

I remember my slide rule, still have it, there was always a problem, you got the right number, but it was often a factor of 10 out, since if you got to one end of the rule, you had to return to the other end, and continue the calculation, the problem was depending on which way you were going it was either x10 or divide by 10, I could never remember which was which.

I bet anybody under 40 doesn't know what a slide rule is, unless they have seen one in a museum.

We had a calculating room at Bradford where you could use an IBM machine that did 20 decimal places for you - mind you it was bigger than an ATM machine and you had to book in advance to use them at peak times.

In the lab where I worked at Associated Octel on the Wirral we had a manual calculator where you had to wind a handle until the bell rang then you went back one wind to get the answer - can't remember who made them but they were very good but you had to know where the decimal point was as I recall.

Sold my Faber-Castell Novo Duplex Slide Rule on e-bay last year I upgraded in my 4 th year as I need e base logs. Got just over twice what it cost new so I was well happy.

My Cambridge Sinclair Calculator had a LED displaywith magnifying lens !
Binned it when the on/off switch packed up !

[firebobby]

I'm a baldy surfer, my wife deals with most of that side of the business, I just play

[RobN]

Fortran iv, Sinclair Cambridge (reverse polish notation) Sinclair Executive, Valves, magnetic amplifiers. Zilog 80, Intel 8080, Motorola 6800, oxy catalane welding, steel, Zeus tables,

I think I have to have a lie down now.

By the way my paypal account is frozen, BT need me to enter a password, Santander, Lloyds, Barclays, RBS and a few others have frozen my accounts. I have written all my passwords and pins onto one document which I just send out to everyone - it's so much easier

[bry]

Originally Posted by rustic

Even opening this email, might have put some spyware on your computer, so when ever or however you change your password, they could still have access to it.

So do a virus check, and if clear change your password again.

Best really to change your password regularly.
But don't make it too simple for you to remember, include numbers, and capital letters.

Eg if your password was NISSAN, you could have N155AN or combinations eg n1s5AN however there are password breaker programmes that would try these combinations in a matter of a few seconds. But better to have extra digits and numbers as well, in different places.

Your email account if hacked could allow hackers to request forgotten passwords to bank accounts.
Also if you have a Face book account, if you say I had my 50th birthday party yesterday, they then have your date of birth.
Also your Uncle, could well have your Mother's maiden name...
Place of birth, can be guessed if you live close to your family...
Amazing what little information you give away each day.



Rustic

Very doubtful if any virus/malware could be downloaded to a user's machine,just by opening a E-mail.Since all E-mails are on,in the case of Gmail.on their own servers.Only by opening/downloading an attachment,would there be a risk.