Subj : GMail Accounts
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Dec 18 2020 07:47:00


Hi Mike!

 > I hadn't heard anything about any sort of hacking causing Google to have
 > problems but did read where some U.S. government sites had been hacked
 > for over nine months and something like 'SolarWinds' monitoring software
 > didn't catch it.  Not blaming SolarWinds totally as have to be somewhat
 > aware something is going on to create something to catch/stop it.
 MP> Here is something about it:
 MP> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/u-s-treasury-commerce-depts-ha
 MP> cked-through-solarwinds-compromise/
 MP> It does sound like whoever it was had been at it for a while.

Yup, and I see in the partial list at least a half-dozen companies I 
deal with directly; probably be getting a bunch of letters in the mail 
warning of potential account intrusion.  As for the undetected activity,
just another reason to do self-monitoring and make sure account activity
matches when is expected.

Also reminds me of years ago when I called a different BBS - the SysOp 
was telling us users to download and install the anti-viral software he
was using -- I thought about and then declined, figuring if a virus/ 
whatever gets past his system it's also going to get past mine if I have
the same AV utility, so I used something different.

 
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