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« on: April 25, 2011, 06:21:40 PM » |
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If you get (or more accurately, got at about 4:30pm today) an email from me with a random link in it, don't click on it.
I updated my phone OS today, and reinstalled a lot of the apps - some of them use my Google account to log-in (this is mean to be secure). Soon after, a few people told me that a dodgy-looking email had been sent from my account.
First thing I did was change my password immediately - so hopefully it won't happen again. But now I'm checking and double-checking everything to make sure it doesn't happen again.
So apologies for the email.
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bobAlike
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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2011, 06:25:32 PM » |
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Would that of happened with an IPhone?  |
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Ah! The element of surprise
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2011, 06:30:37 PM » |
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Would that of happened with an IPhone? 100% yes - and im an iphone lover |
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kinboshi
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2011, 06:35:42 PM » |
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Would that of happened with an IPhone? Was waiting for that! Probably far less likely, but I'm not 100% sure where the 'security breach' happened yet - and that's the worrying thing. |
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2011, 08:04:58 PM » |
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Would that of happened with an IPhone? Was waiting for that! Probably far less likely, but I'm not 100% sure where the 'security breach' happened yet - and that's the worrying thing. I don't suppose you will either unless you're going to disassmble all the apps. |
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Ah! The element of surprise
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2011, 08:10:52 PM » |
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disassmble is my new favourite word
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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2011, 08:18:43 PM » |
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disassmble is my new favourite word
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Ah! The element of surprise
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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2011, 08:19:43 PM » |
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Phone sounds like a bit of a red herring to me - unless you've downloaded new apps or attained them from a compromised source - surely if they were malicious your account would have been taken a while ago.
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kinboshi
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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2011, 08:24:34 PM » |
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Phone sounds like a bit of a red herring to me - unless you've downloaded new apps or attained them from a compromised source - surely if they were malicious your account would have been taken a while ago.
You could well be right, it might just be a coincidence - unless of course the app (or the app's server) has been compromised since I originally installed the app - and the new update is infected? I'm checking my PCs as well, but nothing's changed on them (nothing installed, no security changes, etc.) for quite a while - so strange why it should happen this afternoon. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2011, 08:25:16 PM » |
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Happened to me recently too :/ And I have a ridic password :s
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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2011, 08:27:01 PM » |
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I saw the email from you on my HTC. Didn't open the link as I thought is was did. However, wish I could say the same for Darren on the laptop at home.
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kinboshi
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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2011, 08:27:08 PM » |
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Would that of happened with an IPhone? Was waiting for that! Probably far less likely, but I'm not 100% sure where the 'security breach' happened yet - and that's the worrying thing. I don't suppose you will either unless you're going to disassmble all the apps. Suppose one way would be to do a 'Groundhog Day' - and take my phone back to how it was at the start of the day, and then reinstall the apps one-by-one (that use the Google account log-in) and see if I get hacked again. Not going to do that though, but since I've changed my password I'm not letting anything use the google log-in to authenticate me from now on. |
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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2011, 08:31:26 PM » |
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Thought gmail was the nuts?
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« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2011, 09:27:04 PM » |
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email received and deleted
thanks.
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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2011, 09:43:05 PM » |
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ffs boshi
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