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Monday, February 15, 2010
Attn Gmail users. Can you answer these questions?
Monday, February 15, 2010 | Original Musings by
Jen
Dear Gmail Users,
Below is a link to a form to regain access to your gmail account if it is ever hacked. I suggest looking at the form closely and writing down the answers PRIOR to your account getting hacked. Or loose your gmail account forever. Really.
I blogged earlier in the month about getting hacked ( I was hacked ). I got everything covered and back except one thing. My valued gmail account.
My gmail account was obviously somehow linked with the yahoo account that got hacked. It's not just ANY gmail account (like this blogger account), it was MINE:
MyFirstName(dot)MyLastName@gmail.com
MyFirstName(dot)MyLastName@gmail.com
I'm sure you're wondering right now why can't I email someone. I did. I have. MANY, MANY times. They refer me to this link:
I'm not sure what the d-bag hacker changed, but obviously my answers to these questions (like 5 of my contacts) is wrong. I've attempted this form 14 times. 14 times I get the following auto-response:
Thank you for your report. We've completed our investigation and cannot return your account at this time. We were unable to verify that you own this account based on the information you provided.
If you can provide additional information to verify that you own this
account, please visit:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1
and submit another report. Whether we can return access to this account depends on the strength and accuracy of your responses, so be sure to provide as much information as possible. If you're unsure about specific dates or information, provide your best guess.
To create a new account, please visit
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation and understanding.
Regards,
The Google Team
Inconvenience? It's more than that. My daughter's school communicates to me through that, my registration for anything important (sorry gap.com, you get my throwaway yahoo), and my friends and family are linked through there.
I can't remember when I opened that account. I could probably look at my emails and see when I received the first one. Oh wait. I can't.
I can't tell you when I first starting using google docs. All I know is that I have tons of info in there, and even my houshold budget, and can't access it.
I could go on and on about how I try that form with each month of 2007, but it's pointless. If the dbag erased all my contacts like he did while in my yahoo account..... I'll never answer that bot-form correctly.
So, dear Gmail users. Take a lesson from me, and if you don't use outlook or other programs that downloads your emails (ie you do it all online) you risk losing it all and despite having 12.675 forms of ID to show it's yours, Google and Gmail don't care.
Good luck.
Sincerely,
Me.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Monday was hell and everyone wants to know why I "defriended" them on facebook.
Monday was hell. Let me try and make this short.
Monday my yahoo was hacked and sent an email to over 500 contacts, including vendors and customers, friends, and family stating I was in Wales and send me money.
I could deal with that.
Then he/they got into my FB account and locked me out of there. Despite several emails exchanges, I still don't have access. In fact, I didn't hear back from the FB rep yesterday.
Then he/they went on to other sites associated with this email address (like facebook) and click "forgot password" and went on to reset my passwords. About 5 hours after the first email was sent from this d-bag, I get a noticed from ebay that my account was suspended due to suspicious activity. He/they bid on close to 15 laptops. Luckily, ebay caught it and shut my account down (but I now have it back).
Then he went into my XX@gmail account. I tried answering the questions to regain that account, but obviously I didn't answer something right. Because after 4 attemps, I have 4 emails from google stating I did not provide enough information, and I'm locked out of that account.
I was on the phone with yahoo for over 2 hours trying to regain control of THIS account, but while on the phone, I was getting notifications from facebook, gmail, ebay, etc that my passwords were being changed. I couldn't keep up with him/them. I then realized since I had this yahoo account for like 4 years, that many of my financial institutions were associated with this account, so I immediately starting changing the passwords on those accounts, then called the banks and put fraud alerts. then I called my cc companies. They ALL decided to cancel my CCs and send me new ones. I had to take a business trip yesterday with the $23 I had and a company card. I felt naked.
So, Monday all in all it took about 7 hours to clean up the chaos he/they created. This doesn't include getting calls from vendors, co-workers, and customers telling me they think I've been hacked, others who hadn't talked to me in awhile concerned I really was stuck in Wales, and the embarassment of it all.
It was truly hell.
Monday my yahoo was hacked and sent an email to over 500 contacts, including vendors and customers, friends, and family stating I was in Wales and send me money.
I could deal with that.
Then he/they got into my FB account and locked me out of there. Despite several emails exchanges, I still don't have access. In fact, I didn't hear back from the FB rep yesterday.
Then he/they went on to other sites associated with this email address (like facebook) and click "forgot password" and went on to reset my passwords. About 5 hours after the first email was sent from this d-bag, I get a noticed from ebay that my account was suspended due to suspicious activity. He/they bid on close to 15 laptops. Luckily, ebay caught it and shut my account down (but I now have it back).
Then he went into my XX@gmail account. I tried answering the questions to regain that account, but obviously I didn't answer something right. Because after 4 attemps, I have 4 emails from google stating I did not provide enough information, and I'm locked out of that account.
I was on the phone with yahoo for over 2 hours trying to regain control of THIS account, but while on the phone, I was getting notifications from facebook, gmail, ebay, etc that my passwords were being changed. I couldn't keep up with him/them. I then realized since I had this yahoo account for like 4 years, that many of my financial institutions were associated with this account, so I immediately starting changing the passwords on those accounts, then called the banks and put fraud alerts. then I called my cc companies. They ALL decided to cancel my CCs and send me new ones. I had to take a business trip yesterday with the $23 I had and a company card. I felt naked.
So, Monday all in all it took about 7 hours to clean up the chaos he/they created. This doesn't include getting calls from vendors, co-workers, and customers telling me they think I've been hacked, others who hadn't talked to me in awhile concerned I really was stuck in Wales, and the embarassment of it all.
It was truly hell.
Monday, February 01, 2010
I was hacked.
So today was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. One of my emails accounts were hacked. Yes, all 500-and-some contacts in my address book got an URGENT email stating I was in Wales, had been mugged, and needed $2000. An oldie but a goodie. Just to think, last week I won the UK lottery. Maybe I was mugged because someone thought I had all that cash on me? Ok, my seriously bad attempt at finding humor in this situation.It went from bad to worse, and I could go on to explain how I'm locked out of ebay (temporarily suspended), Facebook (hopefully temporary), gmail (hopefully fixed tomorrow), and a couple of other sites. But I won't. What I will explain is some common sense rules I ignored.
My IT guy in corp HQ suggested changing all my passwords every 60-90 days. I need to come up with an organizational system to do this. I realized I hadn't changed my email password in over 3 years. I'm not sure it would have prevented today's attack, but it would have been a line of defense.
I'm locked out of facebook, why? It was the same PW as my email account. How to solve that in the future seems pretty self explanatory. Again, a new organizational system needed to keep track of a unique password for every site I visit.
Bank accounts. Thank G-d I used a different PW for all my financial institutions. I went ahead and changed those passwords too, called CS and asked for a fraud alert. I'm already thinking not all my financial institutions need the same password. I'm starting to see a trend here. Following me?
Overall, I could go into it, but you've heard the warnings. No longer is it a friend of a friend that it once happened to. It happened to me.
I don't open emails from unknown senders.
I don't click on links that I'm not sure about.
Attachments to emails get run through a virus scan.
So, how did this happen? No clue.
Ebay was nice enough to provide me with the IP addy of the person who changed my ebay password. It belongs to an anonymous proxy server/service (?). I was told that means this person can't be found.
So, dear hacker who ruined by day, made me cry, has locked me out of facebook, and overall my week a hell (and it's only Monday).... I have a message for you. I even put it in a heart to show you how much I care:
Friday, February 08, 2008
To the whiners on my favorite forum, which you have ruined:
To the whiners on my favorite forum, which you have ruined:
You know who you are.... you are that politically correct person who looks for things to whine about. You have taken one of the most interesting forums to hang out on the net and turned it into a namby-pamby-romper-room full of perma-whiners.
You know what? Put your big girl panties on and DEAL WITH IT. For pete's sake!!!!
You know .... if you don't like it don't do it. Don't look at it. Don't watch it. Don't smell it. Just don't.... and whatever you do don't sit there and whine about it. Nobody wants to hear you.
Avoid things you know are going to make you complain. If someone is handicapped they are handicapped. If someone is a midget they are a midget. If they are a different religion, they are. You need to deal with it. Sometimes people are offensive, and you can either walk away or retort wittily back.... but whining makes you appear weak and frankly foolish.
All this PC crap has been pushed to the point of making me want to just
throw up on the next PC whiner that gets near me.
Why is it that people believe that they have to be politically correct? Other than the obvious reasons, like fear of losing one's job, being accused of slander (which by the way is a tough one to prove unless you have hard and fast evidence), impressing others, vying for political office or something just as superfluous in it's needlessness!
I realize that it's the catch-phrase of the decade, but that was the past decade; you remember, the sensitive nineties? How can the 90s have produced such great music and such a group of whiners?
Now I'm not condoning being mean to people and insulting them, even though I firmly believe that there's a time and place for that, but what I am saying is, if you believe one thing but say another, you're lying to the person you're talking to and you're lying to yourself. Sometimes it should be ok to say:
So next time you think about hitting that "report" button to the mods because you whittle feelings got hurt by the mean girl in class.... maybe you should step back and ask yourself why you allow some anonymous poster in a forum get your panties in such a wad.... me thinks you have bigger issues than being politically correct.
......and in case you're wondering, I would LOVE to post this on the forum, but I'd get spanked for TOS violations.....
You know who you are.... you are that politically correct person who looks for things to whine about. You have taken one of the most interesting forums to hang out on the net and turned it into a namby-pamby-romper-room full of perma-whiners.
You know what? Put your big girl panties on and DEAL WITH IT. For pete's sake!!!!
You know .... if you don't like it don't do it. Don't look at it. Don't watch it. Don't smell it. Just don't.... and whatever you do don't sit there and whine about it. Nobody wants to hear you.
Avoid things you know are going to make you complain. If someone is handicapped they are handicapped. If someone is a midget they are a midget. If they are a different religion, they are. You need to deal with it. Sometimes people are offensive, and you can either walk away or retort wittily back.... but whining makes you appear weak and frankly foolish.
All this PC crap has been pushed to the point of making me want to just
throw up on the next PC whiner that gets near me.
Why is it that people believe that they have to be politically correct? Other than the obvious reasons, like fear of losing one's job, being accused of slander (which by the way is a tough one to prove unless you have hard and fast evidence), impressing others, vying for political office or something just as superfluous in it's needlessness!
I realize that it's the catch-phrase of the decade, but that was the past decade; you remember, the sensitive nineties? How can the 90s have produced such great music and such a group of whiners?
Now I'm not condoning being mean to people and insulting them, even though I firmly believe that there's a time and place for that, but what I am saying is, if you believe one thing but say another, you're lying to the person you're talking to and you're lying to yourself. Sometimes it should be ok to say:
So next time you think about hitting that "report" button to the mods because you whittle feelings got hurt by the mean girl in class.... maybe you should step back and ask yourself why you allow some anonymous poster in a forum get your panties in such a wad.... me thinks you have bigger issues than being politically correct.
......and in case you're wondering, I would LOVE to post this on the forum, but I'd get spanked for TOS violations.....
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
I have enough connectivity to make me want to kill myself
originally posted on myspace.com on April 18, 2006
I have enough connectivity to make my want to kill myself
As I received a call last night at 9:30 from someone needing information for a container that was being held up in customs...... I realized I have just enough connectivity to make me want to kill myself
Honestly. I have:
Honestly. I have:
- two desks
- laptop computer
- two desktop computers
- a scanner
- a printer/fax/copier
- a cell phone
- A PDA
- a headset
- ten zillion loose CDs/DVDs and miscellaneous documentation packets scattered about
- not to mention all the personal pieces of technology, digital camera, video camera, etc.
The ones I need to do my job. Yup. Somebody please shoot me. If i can't connect to the network while someone is calling me with a problem, what good is all that technology?
My cell phone, the one all my business calls forward to? Well, it dials nicely, and people can hear me loud and clear, but I can't hear a thing. If I hunch over with my hands clamped over my ears and around the phone, squeeze my eyes shut and do Kegels, I can just barely hear a gnat-like buzzing instead of my voice mail, my coworker, Mom, Mr. President, whomever.
Also? My laptop broke up with the wireless network last Thursday and won't even recognize it now. The IT guy and I have been over every byte of the damn thing and can't figure it out, so it's now all packaged up and waiting for the FedEx man (at least he's cute and it's an excuse to talk to a cute guy during the day - lol).
And I gotta tell you, there's nothing quite like realizing mid-installation that the serial codes are written on the CD. Mmm-mm.
*load*
*wait*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*click*
*type*
*type*
*type*
*click*
"Fuck!"
*eject*
*read*
*load again*
*click again*
*click again*
*click again*
*click again*
*type again*
*type again*
*type again*
*click again*
"Fuck a duck!"
*eject again*
*enter zeroes in place of the letter "o"*
*read yet again*
*load yet again*
*click yet again*
*click yet again*
*click yet again*
*click yet again*
*type yet again*
*type yet again*
*type yet again*
*click yet again*
*"Yessss!"
Well, you know where I'll be. I figure I'll be up and running just as the Chicago office empties for the night. But I'll be ready *just in case* I'm needed at 9:30pm again while watching a new episode of Medium (yes, I'm a 1hour drama junkie).
So, if you can't reach me on our 800#, my direct line, texting me, calling me on my cell or my home number, Im'ing me on yahoo, msn, or aol , or by any of my 3 email addresses...... chances are I'm just ignoring you. I have just enough connectivity to make me want to kill myself.
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