[RTTY] W6WRT email hacked

Al Kozakiewicz akozak at hourglass.com
Tue Jul 14 10:45:32 EDT 2015


No doubt harvested from the list. Every senders email address is exposed.  Safe bet that if Tom, Dick and Harry all subscribe to an email list they have either explicitly or implicitly whitelisted each other.

Disappointingly few email servers take even rudimentary steps to validate that an originating IP address is authorized to send on behalf of a domain, so the delivery success of spoofs is pretty high. You're left relying on anti-spam filters to weed out the trash.

Al
AB2ZY
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From: RTTY <rtty-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Bill Turner <dezrat at outlook.com>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 9:51 PM
To: W2GR at aol.com
Cc: k5ww at coyotearc.net; w8wej at citynet.net; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] W6WRT email hacked

------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE ------------(may be snipped)

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:08:19 -0400, you wrote:

>
>Yup...got the same msg here....
>
>Unless we need to send him funds to the Philippines??
>
>How bout it Bill?...Maybe the headhunters got ya by now in New Guinea..I am
> sure you have hopped there by now.
>
>Mike W2GR

REPLY:

I am at a loss as to how this hacking happened. Anyone can spoof my
email address, but the real question is how did they get YOUR address?
My Yahoo address book is empty since I rarely use that account, and my
only address book is on my local computer. I have antivirus, a very
strong password on my local computer email program and a firewall.
Apparently not enough.

Any advice on this is welcome.

73, Bill W6WRT
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