In recent news the Internet is talking about how a college guy hacked Sarah Palin, 2008 USA vice president candidate, personal Yahoo email account. Actually there was no technical scripting or coding involved in this hack issue. What the “hacker” did was to use Yahoo’s password recovery function by answering 3 security questions. For example, Sarah Palin set up the following three security questions to help her retrieve forgotten password (actually pre-set by Yahoo!). 1), what is her birth date; 2), what is her house zip code; 3), where did she meet with her husband; In the event of her forgetting her email password, what she needs to do is to answer these three questions and reset the password.
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Sometimes it is very funny to see how the Internet work. The Internet is great with its powerful penetration degrees, it can reach to anyone, anywhere and anytime. That is why we are happy to get all these unlimited information we need from the Internet. But if we did not pay attention to the information date, things will be different. I remember weeks ago, a undated news about one Airline merging had been ranked top in Google News even it was an old news. But this news item caused the stock market moving crazy for a while because people thought this airline would talk acquisition again.
Today one of my friends asked my helps on tracing or finding out another people’s IP address. He indicated this guy(s) had his Yahoo! Messenger account and email address from some ways, then started to harass him in instant messages and emails with nasty words and graphics. My friend tried to know who this “bad ass” is(are) and where he(they) is(are) from. So a basic IP will be a starting point.
Since this late noon, all of my domains on the Microsoft Windows Hosting server at 1and1.com could not be accessed. I called the tech support and was told all A records of my domain names have been pointed to an external IP address (82.165.204.153). Even I swore to the tech support that I did not make any changes on my DNS setup, but she insisted that only the owner of my account (of course, me) can do such changes. And I asked whether they could do some investigations to see who and when made such changes from logs, but I could not get any satisfied answer from her. Anyhow, the important part at this moment was to get all my domains back. So I had to manually change all A records back to my hosting server’s IP addresses. I was glad I only host less than 20 domains on this Microsoft platform, image I would have to change my Unix hosting domains (Shhhhh).
Challenge: This afternoon, a co-worker came to me and ask my help to retrieve her forgotten admin password for HP Web JetAdmin login. The situation was that she had been using another created profile too often to remember the default admin account logon credential. She tried the default password ‘admin’ but it did not work.
I have removed all McAfee services, like Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, but I still could not proceed when I last tried to uninstall the McAfee Security Services Center. The error message was:”…you need to uninstall all McAfee Security Services first…“.
Today one of my co-workers in Finance department asked me to take a look at an Excel worksheet. He needed to add something in but all modification options like Insert, Delete were grayed out. He mentioned he was not the original guy did this worksheet and the guy who did this worksheet had left.
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