BIG uptick in E-mail hacking attempts -- anyone else notice?

Yay!!!!!

This has been a fun thread.

 

That looks like my living room. Minus the money. And the 70's furniture.




Actually that looks nothing like my living room.

 

With my luck, all of those would be old Zimbabwe dollars. $35,000 Trillion of them were worth $1 U.S. They would be more valuable as recycled pulp fiber, or firewood, than as currency.

Zimbabwe offers new exchange rate: $1 for 35,000,000,000,000,000 old dollars | World news | The Guardian

 

Well I suppose it could be worse: Hacker posts personal info of House Democrats and staff - The Washington Post

After receiving a deluge of obscene voicemails and text messages, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi informed her fellow Democrats on Saturday of “an electronic Watergate break-in” and warned them not to allow family members to answer their phones or read incoming texts.
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A hacker who calls himself Guccifer 2.0 took credit for posting the information Friday night. He had claimed responsibility for the recent hack of Democratic National Committee emails, which roiled the Democratic National Convention last month. While Guccifer 2.0 has described himself as a Romanian hacker and denies working for Russia, online investigators assert that he is linked to Russia.
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Both firms, Fidelis Cybersecurity and ThreatConnect, said the hackers created a fake internet DCCC donation site. The registrant for the fake DCCC site was linked back to other web domains used by “Fancy Bear.​

Bob Wilson

 

fhopol.

 

I have a web server in my basement for my family web site (doctord.webhop.net - running on an old netbook) which also supports my engineering courses. Hackers attack it several times an hour (three in the last 15 minutes). This is not a new trend as it has been going on for several years. None have ever succeeded in actually getting into the server, but then the content is actually available to anybody who accesses the site.

JeffD

 

Hidden in plain site!

 

Quite the Russian hacker, there!