August 24, 2008
I Was Hacked… Or Wormed?
So we all hear about hackers and viruses and worms that do all kinds of crazy things with our computers, websites and email accounts… but that only happens to other people, right?
Well, this weekend it happened to me.
Saturday morning I woke up to discover that someone or something had sent out a spam email through my Gmail account, to 100 people in my address book ranging from S to Z.
Since my Gmail is set to default to my LWL Worldwide email address, then everybody got an email from me on my professional business address.
Yeah, real professional!
So after doing my best to do damage control with the poor people who received the obnoxious spam, I set out trying to find out who — or what — exactly caused it to happen, and how to prevent it from happening again…
