Hacked!

[avgas]

In google/gmails defense I was pleasantly surprised when overseas attempts were made on my account. Soon as I logged in again, it checked where my account was last attempted access (it failed by the way) and asked me if I happened to be in Africa or China (happened twice). I ticked the 'no' and it then prompted me to change my password.

Handy little feature.

Turned out 1 attempt was a netcafe I went to 5 years ago, still had some of my details, and the other was a android tablet I sold on trademe. So not real hackers - but I thought it was a nice attempt of simple security.

As I have said before to a workmate......solid bricks of security are only as strong as the plaster holding them together. Someone can always hack your password - he'll they can read a few 802.11g packets via wireshark, nek minit your facebook photo is of goatse.
(not that I have ever done such a thing)

[jrandom]

Someone can always hack your password - he'll they can read a few 802.11g packets via wireshark, nek minit your facebook photo is of goatse.
(not that I have ever done such a thing)

People like you are why I connect to Facebook via SSL.

[jonbuoy]

Being on a Mac doesn't mean squat as far as security wise, in the past there was very little in the way of attacks on the Mac OS platform simply because it was such a minority and not really worth the time (why make a virus to attack 10 people when you can attack 100?).

And scanned it with what application? Was it up to date? Do they have a friend\spouse\etc that may know the details for the account? Is the Macbook the only device on that network? What method of encryption was used on the wireless network? etc? etc? etc?

Essentially what I'm trying to say is: You could try and safeguard against everything but something will always get you but in the case of a lot of average users its an issue of no security or completely inadequate.

Meh...

True that MAC users feel a little too secure and a wee bit smug but this guy is usually pretty aware of risks in free wifi hotspots etc. Network is as secure as it can be, not many users on it all trusted people, untangle firewall, wireless doesn't reach far off a ship. Clam Xav was used to scan, nothing found and since we got control back of his account no problems.

[jonbuoy]

Security security. Guns and bombs and border fences. Not website hacking.

Then again, George Friedman did write a piece on the Anonymous campaign against the Mexican cartels recently. I expect that got Stratfor some attention in new circles.

We have security teams onboard for certain trips - these are the front line guys and they are all fully aware that hacking and cracking is the new phone tapping/bugging they might not be IT experts but they are aware and have consultants. Sure the Stratfor IT team were aware as well, maybe management weren´t listening who knows.