Someone hacked into my acct.

[HeelSpur]

Someone from Japan hacked into my computer now I'm getting emails from people wondering if I'm sending them things, so hopefully no one here gets anything from me other than a couple pms I have sent out.

[lbgradwell]

Japan?

Much more likely China or North Korea or some other "problem state"...

Sucks either way!

[OilyRascal]

That does suck!  Also saw where yahoo had over 450k passwords exposed earlier this week.

US has good relations with Japan re: forensics and prosecution of cyber crimes.  It is the other extreme with China, Russia, and North Korea where there is no cooperation - and this is a well known fact  among those wanting to do bad things.

[HeelSpur]

Got a email from FB and they showed the location on a map of japan.
Are people that bored that they have to screw with someone elses stuff.

[bunger]

Someone from Japan hacked into my computer now I'm getting emails from people wondering if I'm sending them things, so hopefully no one here gets anything from me other than a couple pms I have sent out.

Change your e-mail password, if you haven't done so.

[HeelSpur]

Someone from Japan hacked into my computer now I'm getting emails from people wondering if I'm sending them things, so hopefully no one here gets anything from me other than a couple pms I have sent out.

Change your e-mail password, if you haven't done so.

Thats the 1st thing I done, hopefully it won't happen again.

[Branson]

Are people that bored that they have to screw with someone elses stuff.

Yes.  Or something like that.  Where did computer viruses come from?  And now we have
all those seals on over-the-counter medicines (and anything else people can ingest -- this
because of idiots putting other things, including poisons, into them while they were sitting
on the shelves in stores.

[OilyRascal]

Where did computer viruses come from?

The first one?  In the 70's, "Creeper" I believe it was named....but there was no intention to cause harm, rather demonstrate propagation capabilities.   It was designed in a controlled environment within a lab as an experiment only.  "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" it would display on your screen.  Although not malicious in nature THAT was the start of modern viruses IMO.

Some folks would like to date it back further to the late '40s, but I would disagree as it was only in theory and lecture; not practice.

Having said that - I've always been of the opinion that technology is "released" to us when it is no longer vital to have it safeguarded in certain hands.  I'll leave it at that to avoid anything political.  So who REALLY knows the real timeline of technology.  I believe we only truly understand it in the context of educational, commercial, and social use.

[Nolatoolguy]

That sucks.


I say we find whoever did it an use your antique kicthen saw you just got on them LOL

[HeelSpur]

That sucks.


I say we find whoever did it an use your antique kicthen saw you just got on them LOL

I'd rather use bolt cutters on their finger tips-ooouch.

[Branson]

Where did computer viruses come from?

The first one?  In the 70's, "Creeper" I believe it was named....but there was no intention to cause harm, rather demonstrate propagation capabilities.   It was designed in a controlled environment within a lab as an experiment only.  "I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!" it would display on your screen.  Although not malicious in nature THAT was the start of modern viruses IMO.

Scarlett Pimpernel came  before Creeper.  Same line, "I'm the Scarlett Pimpernel; catch me if you can."  Controlled environment, etc. at Stanford.

But the point is, malicious people exist, people who dreamed up and spread computer viruses, Trojans, etc. 

[OilyRascal]

Scarlett Pimpernel came  before Creeper....

I'm curious where you got that information?  A phone call to Trilling who is SVP/CTO, and head of SARC research, at Symantec seems to confirm my thinking.  This is where I lived and played for years on years - If I have it wrong I sure like to know how.  Never heard of Scarlett

[rusty]

Creeper's claim to fame is that it was the first to walk the newfangled internet, arpanet at the time...

The concept is decades older than that....

[Branson]

I'm curious where you got that information?  A phone call to Trilling who is SVP/CTO, and head of SARC research, at Symantec seems to confirm my thinking.  This is where I lived and played for years on years - If I have it wrong I sure like to know how.  Never heard of Scarlett

From a research associate who, along with his father, worked at Stanford.  Scarlett Pimpernel happened in his father's time there in the earliest computer days.